"Three on a Match" (1932)

There's an old superstition that if three people light their cigarette off a single match then one of them will soon die. So when three grade school friends meet by chance years later and have that fateful puff the wheels of fate are set in motion in this fast-paced pre-Code melodrama. Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, and Bette Davis are the The Wayward One, The Society Lady, and The Working Girl respectively. And just when you think you've figured out the plot, things twist and turn unexpectedly (hey, just like life).