Love/Marriage Concepts Screwed Up- Even for 1935

I truly enjoyed Bette Davis' performance in this film. Its one of the more entertaining pictures from that era. Some of the lines spoken still hold up quite well, even for the 21st century!
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However:
-- the characters "fall in love" almost instantly,
-- marriage is on the table as an ultimatum after the briefest of courtships,
-- the main characters are supposedly infatuated with one another, but cannot communicate directly and honestly when it most counts, by simply saying how they feel
-- the main male character manhandles women and is forcible in imposing his will on them
-- both the women give the male character a free pass to cheat and philander
-- at the very end of the movie, both characters settle for people that they treated as 2nd choices ... and both of those characters have no spine or backbone.
But without a doubt the WORST moment in the film is the last 10 seconds:
-- Bette Davis' character actually goes back to her sadomasochistic husband?!!?
The man she despised in a long speech to him 15 minutes earlier in the film?
The man who refused to give her a divorce, over the years, forcing her to remain married to him?
Totally bizarre and almost seemed like the Hollywood Production Code stepped in to rewrite the ending. Maybe not, but it made ZERO SENSE for a strong willed woman like Bette's character to simply cave in after she became a stage sensation again, just because he was getting married to his original fiance.
Maybe the scriptwriter just ran out of fuel, or they ran over budget. The ending at the end was awful!

I came to realize