The Beloved Bachelor (1931)

Michael Morda a young sculptor living in San Francisco is madly in love with Elinor Hunter and they plan to be married When Elinor becomes jealous of Julie Stressman an old friend of Michaels and one of his models Michael reluctantly asks Julie not to visit him at his studio They agree to meet only at the construction site where he is working on a sculpture for which Julie is modeling When Elinor also shows up at the site Julie leaves so as to avoid a confrontation but she is killed by some falling materials Julies dying request is that Michael adopt her daughter Mitzi whose father died years earlier In order to prevent Mitzi from being taken to an orphanage Michael lies and says he is her father Elinor hears this and without asking questions leaves him and marries another man the same night