Ann Vickers (1933)
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This 1933 movie version of Sinclair Lewis's novel Ann Vickers stars Irene Dunne in the title role. Left alone and pregnant by her soldier sweetheart (Bruce Cabot), Ann turns her life around by devoting herself to social work. A frustrating tenure as psychologist in a poorly maintained woman's prison only strengthens Ann's resolve to improve the world around her. She falls in love with the politically progressive judge (Walter Huston) who helps finance her career, standing by him when he is unjustly accused of graft. Ann Vickers contains one startling sequence in which Ann, following the premature end of her pregnancy, walks with great discomfort around her garden while she speaks wistfully about,"the daughter I'll never have." Otherwise, the film suffers from its adaptors' soap-opera mindset, as well as the decision to cram Lewis's complex novel into a brief 75 minutes' screen time. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Irene Dunne - Ann Vickers
- Conrad Nagel - Lindsay Atwell
- Edna May Oliver - Malvina Wormsor
- Mitchell Lewis - Capt. Waldo
- Gertrude Michael - Mona Dolphin
- Reginald Barlow - Chaplain
- Murray Kinnell
- Sarah Padden - Lil
- Edwin Maxwell - Defense Attorney
- Jane Darwell - Mrs. Gates
- Walter Huston - Barney Dolphin
- Bruce Cabot - Captain Resnick
- Sam Hardy - Russell Spaulding
- Helen Eby-Rock - Kitty Cognac
- Irving Bacon - Waiter
- Arthur Hoyt - Mr. Penny
- Rafaela Ottiano - Feldermus
- J. Carrol Naish - Dr. Sorell
- William P. Carleton
- Director(s):
- John Cromwell
- Writer(s):
- Jane Murfin
- Producer(s):
- Pandro S. Berman
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