A scathing drama of “mother-love” gone awry portrays the lengths to which widowed Mrs. Phelps will go to keep her “boy’s” attachment to, if not love for, her. Though son Robert ultimately gives up a devoted fiancée and holds fast to the “silver cord” of affection for his mother, firstborn David brings home Christina, a woman who is not so easily dissuaded by The Widow Phelps’ machinations in the name of love.
Written by Sidney Howard. First produced on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre in 1926.
