'For Those We Love' is rather tragic, because for once it shows what can happen when paranoia and suspicion gets too much when really there is nothing going on.
Mary Astor plays May, a pretty and sweet woman who buys the very first copy of a novel published by aspiring author Freddie (Kenneth MacKenna). They fall in love, get married and have a son, but Freddie becomes the object of affection for a desperate neighbour who is unhappy in her own marriage. Ever the gentleman, Freddie resists all her advances. Wrongly believing that Freddie has been unfaithful after coming home early and finding Valerie's coat draped over a chair, May leaves immediately with their son, with no word of an explanation and giving Freddie no chance to explain. This leads him to finally give in and have an affair with Valerie. Very sad really. Wonderful to watch Mary Astor in a role like this whilst being aware of her own colourful and unfaithful personal life where she got through man after man right under her husband's nose; and kept a diary of all her exploits that was eventually published in the newspaper!
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