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7.2/10   37 votes
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Writers:
Mary M. Axelson (play)
Robert Rossen (screenplay)
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Release Date:
6 January 1940 (USA) more
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Get out the handkerchief! more (2 total)

Cast

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Geraldine Fitzgerald ... Grace Sutton
Jeffrey Lynn ... Jed Sutton
Gladys George ... Florette Laverne
Gale Page ... Miss Bowers, Head Nurse
Spring Byington ... Mrs. Mamie West
Johnnie Davis ... Ringer Banks
Henry O'Neill ... Dr. Lee
John Litel ... Dr. Brett
Gloria Holden ... Mrs. Kempner
Johnny Downs ... Johnny Norton
Eve Arden ... Miss Pinty, A Nurse
Fay Helm ... The Mentally Disturbed Woman
Louis Jean Heydt ... Mr. Steve Kempner
Nanette Fabray ... Gladys Norton (as Nanette Fabares)
Jean Sharon ... Mrs. Helen Banks
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Additional Details

Runtime:
79 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:H | USA:Approved (PCA #5229)

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The play opened on Broadway in New York City, New York, USA on 28 March 1932 but closed after only 8 performances. In the cast were Glenda Farrell, Mildred Dunnock and Frank Wilcox. more
Movie Connections:
Version of Life Begins (1932) more
Soundtrack:
My Melancholy Baby more

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4 out of 6 people found the following review useful.
Get out the handkerchief!, 14 January 2001
10/10

Get ready for an emotional roller coaster! One minute you'll be laughing the next minute the tears will be streaming down your cheeks! This is the story of one hospital's maternity floor and the women who are staying there waiting to have their babies. Geraldine Fitzgerald gives a fine performance as Mrs. Grace Sutton, a young lady, like any other, going to the hospital to have a baby...only she is handcuffed! She has evidently murdered a man (though no explanation is given as to the circumstances)and will likely spend the rest of her life in prison. The stress of being in jail and having a baby is proving to be too much for her. Gloria Holden (star of Dracula's Daughter a few years earlier) plays a woman who is worried about losing her first child. Spring Byington has a field day as a gal who is now popping out her 6th child, and a very young Nanette Fabray is a teenager whose mother doesn't know she is having a baby, or that she is even married! Then there is Gale Page as the oh so professional nurse, and Eve Arden in a rare non-comedic role as another nurse. But the stand-out performances are by Jeffrey Lynn as the tragic husband of the incarcerated mom-to-be and Johnnie Davis as another franticly nervous spouse! These and a few other characters play out this underrated film which, while slightly dated, is sure to wring out the tears in just about everyone! I give it 10 stars!!!

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