The Past of Mary Holmes (1933)

Famous opera singer Mary Holmes (Helen MacKellar) loses her voice, takes to the gin bottle, and plunges herself and her son Geoffrey (Eric Linden), whom she blames for her impairment, into a gutter existence. To get revenge--and her name in the newspapers again--she concocts a story about Geoffrey killing an oily-suave man-about-town. Complications follow before mother-love takes over.