 "Thicker than Water" received good reviews, but by then even her publisher Liveright was feeling the pangs of the Great Depression and Caspary was again nearly broke.In March 1933, a Fox story editor called and asked for another original just like "Suburb", which had been filmed as "the Night of June 13".She spent that summer in Hollywood, writing a treatment for Fox and working on a play with Samuel Ornitz.