- HD 1080
- Runtime: 68m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Edward Buzzell
- Stars: Carole Lombard, Pat O’Brien, Ward Bond, Shirley Grey, Mayo Methot
- keywords: waitress, taxi driver, brooklyn, new york city, pre-code, street walker, vice cop
- Production_studio: Columbia Pictures
- Slogan: Yesterday a Lady with a Past — Today the Wife of the Man She Loved!
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The Virtue is featured in the top rankings of 1932
- #12 in Top Romance Movies of 1932
- #17 in Top Drama Movies of 1932
- #7 in Top Crime Movies of 1932
Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.