Adaptation From Book
The character Hazel Cousins as played by Peg Entwistle in the film is married, kills her husband and goes to prison. In the book, Hazel is a lesbian who is seduced by (in Thayer's words) a "dyke" married to a lung doctor. Hazel has tuberculosis and starves herself to death in a sanitarium while suffering the heartache of having been abandoned by her lover Martha. In both the book and movie, May and June Raskob (played by Harriet Hagman and Mary Duncan) are twin sisters who work in a circus, but in book they are overweight side show attractions, rather than photogenic trapeze artists as in the film.
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