I Loved a Woman is a 1933 American pre-Code drama directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Kay Francis, Edward G. Robinson, and Genevieve Tobin. According to producer Hal Wallis' autobiography (with Charles Higham), Robinson and Francis "were oddly matched. Kay was so tall that we had to put Eddie [Robinson] on a box in some scenes to bring him level with her and, understandably he was humiliated. Irritable and self-conscious, he argued with Kay frequently. But he [...] gave credit to her fine acting." However, it was Wallis and other executives who also made the choice to cut three of Kay's scenes, leaving her presence in the film really as a supporting actress.
Plot
John Hayden, owner of a Chicago meat-packing company, falls in love with a beautiful opera singer.
Cast
Edward G. Robinson as John Mansfield Hayden
Kay Francis as Laura McDonald
Genevieve Tobin as Martha Lane Hayden
Robert Barrat as Charles Lane
Murray Kinnell as Davenport
Robert McWade as Larkin
J. Farrell MacDonald as Shuster
Henry Kolker as Mr. Sanborn
George Blackwood as Henry
Walter Walker as Oliver
Henry O'Neill as Mr. Farrell
E. J. Ratcliffe as Theodore Roosevelt
William V. Mong as Bowen
Douglass Dumbrille as Brandt (uncredited) Howard Hickman as Businessman (uncredited) Edwin Maxwell as Gossiper (uncredited)