Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Robert J. Maxwell Cary Grant was 30 years old and Loretta Young was 21, and neither had quite fixed their personae. Grant doesn't seem able to relax. The guy was an acrobat earlier in life but here he seems wooden. Loretta Young, on the other hand, slings that slender chassis around with abandon and looks dewy, moist, gorgeous. When she smiles, from some angles, she resembles Blythe Danner.But, man, she is a greedy and unprincipled shark. Her young son is hit by a truck. Damage is minimal but a "specialist" is brought in to tell the very wealthy Grant, who owns the truck company, that the kid may never again walk or play the violin with his feet. (Sob.) It's all set up to milk cash out of Grant and his dairy and Grant agrees to any settlement. As the "specialist" is leaving the room, he takes Young aside and mutters that she "can settle with me later -- outside." This was before the Hayes Office Of Morality and Rectitude dropped the porticullis and eliminated such salacious filth.Man, is that little kid a nuisance. He's obviously older than seven and his ears are those of an African elephant. I swear I saw them flap in a slight breeze. His voice is an irritating whine. Cary Grant and his loving wife adopt him to raise him properly. I'd have stomped him like an insect.It's diverting and it's short. It's an historical curiosity too, and Loretta Young is a delight. Not just for the eyes. She plays a rather low-down creature who smokes, chews gum, and drops her "g"s, so that "nothing" becomes "nuthin."

bkoganbing Born To Be Bad takes the unusual step of casting the normally wholesome Loretta Young as a bad girl. She's not only a woman of easy virtue, she's got an out of wedlock kid to prove it in the person of young Jackie Kelk. She supports herself and Kelk with a job at Henry Travers's bookstore.But Loretta thinks she might have hit the mother lode when Kelk gets hit by a dairy truck that belongs to rich farmer Cary Grant. She's going to follow the American dream of getting rich by suing somebody with deep pockets. And she's got an attorney in Harry Green from the whiplash Willie Gingrich school of shyster attorneys to help out. But Grant's attorney Paul Harvey gets the goods on them.For a film which strays into The Fortune Cookie territory it then takes the road to Stella Dallas as Grant and his sterile wife Marion Burns offer to adopt young Kelk to give him a decent home. Loretta's down, but her bag of tricks is far from empty.Young was already a star and Cary Grant was up and coming, but hadn't quite found his niche yet in comedy. He's a serviceable leading man her nothing more. As for Loretta she was certainly one sexy package when the picture called for it. Born To Be Bad will never be rated in the top films of either Cary Grant or Loretta Young, but it did no harm to either star.As for the ending, think Stella Dallas.

SuperKelli15@hotmail.com I want to comment on that the romance was there...I just want ed to say that I thought the ending would be better, but she just leaves.. I think eventually in the future if this was a true story that she would stay with him... Like if they made a sequel to this that she would come back and be with him in the end with Mickey...With saying that.. I pretty much liked the rest of the movie.. I think that Cary Grant is very gorgeous in his younger years in this movie.. and Loretta Young is just as beautiful as she is in The Bishops wife (Which Cary Grant plays her guardian angel also in which he falls in love with her)... The movie is a lesson to stay strong and tough....and lie... to get out of unbeatable predicaments.

bob.decker This flawed second feature -- about a beautiful floozy, her streetwise little boy, and the millionaire who comes to their aid -- sustains interest only thanks to the attractive stars. Young, with her huge eyes and dazzling smile, has the aura of Joan Crawford in her "Dance, Fools, Dance" period, while Grant, who was 30 when this was made, has not yet fully matured into the character we know from the second half of the 1930s. The story, despite its implausibility, is not unappealing; it is pleasant to imagine oneself being a slum-kid one day and being invited to live with Cary Grant and his affectionate wife the next. The screenplay is oddly structured; the story begins with Young being admired by an odd trio that looks as if it wandered off from the set of "Dinner At Eight" and whom we never see again, and the picture ends just as abruptly. Still, not a bad way to spend 65 minutes.