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6.8/10   325 votes
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Director:
Frank Capra
Writers:
Frank Capra (story)
Jo Swerling (adaptation)
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Release Date:
15 January 1932 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
Her Greatest Dramatic Role !
Plot:
In this romance a librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to a crippled woman. full summary | add synopsis
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NewsDesk:
Pre-Code Wellman and Godard's Code Unknown
 (From IFC. 31 March 2009, 7:17 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
A fine melodrama. more

Cast

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Barbara Stanwyck ... Lulu Smith

Adolphe Menjou ... Bob Grover
Ralph Bellamy ... Al Holland
Dorothy Peterson ... Helen Grover
Thomas Jefferson ... Wilkinson
Myrna Fresholt ... Roberta as a Baby
Charlotte Henry ... Roberta: aged 18
Oliver Eckhardt ... Briggs
Roger Byrne ... Office Boy
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Jane Doe (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
83 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | French
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved

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Anachronisms: The film begins in the present day, i.e. 1932. There is no attempt at period decor in any way; the automobiles, music, and clothing styles are all contemporary; twenty or thirty years pass by. The principals live out their lives, grow old, and die. Yet their surrounding environment never changes; it is still 1932. more

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23 out of 28 people found the following comment useful:-
A fine melodrama., 28 March 1999
7/10
Author: mifunesamurai from Australia

Stanwyck plays a kept woman for a married politician. Out of her sheer devotion to him she decides not to cause a scandal when she falls pregnant. Instead, she disappears, but no sooner does the politician track her down and the film gets swept away by the melodrama of a soap opera. But what a fine melodrama this is. Capra managed to take the fat out of the story and move through time in great leaps and bounds. This film is full of surprises and never sells out to the moral crusaders of the time. Further more, the characters are human, playful, you feel for them as the story slowly sucks you in until you have no choice but to go along with the melodramatic symphony that plays with your heart and mind.

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