Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
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Greer Garson is dignity and integrity personified in the role of the real-life Edna Gladney. After several life experiences which rival daytime drama for unrelenting misery and melodrama, Edna marries flour-mill owner Sam Gladney (Walter Pidgeon). They have a baby, who dies shortly after Edna discovers that she can never have any other children. To give her life some meaning, Edna sets up the Texas Children's Home and Aid Society, which specializes in caring for illegitimate children and offering them for adoption. After her husband's death, Edna becomes a powerful political figure, succeeding in removing the stigma of illegitimacy by having that word stricken from all future Texas birth certificates; in this way, she honors the memory of her own half sister, who had killed herself upon discovering she was born out of wedlock. MGM thought enough of Blossoms in the Dust to film the production in Technicolor, a luxury usually reserved in 1941 for musicals or Westerns. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Greer Garson - Edna Gladney
- Felix Bressart - Dr. Max Breslar
- Fay Holden - Mrs. Kahly
- Kathleen Howard - Mrs. Keats
- William Henry - Allan Keats
- John Eldredge - Damon McPherson
- Theresa Harris - Cleo
- Cecil Cunningham - Mrs. Gilworth
- Richard Nichols - Sammy
- Marc Lawrence - Bert La Verne
- Edwin Maxwell - Board Member
- Walter Pidgeon - Sam Gladney
- Marsha Hunt - Charlotte
- Samuel S. Hinds - Mr. Kahly
- George Lessey - Mr. Keats
- Henry O'Neill - Judge
- Clinton Rosemond - Zeke
- Charles Arnt - G. Harrison Hedger
- Ann Morriss - Mrs. Loring
- Mary Taylor - Helen
- Frank Darien - Accountant
- Will Wright - Senator
- Director(s):
- Mervyn LeRoy
- Writer(s):
- Anita Loos, Ralph Wheelwright
- Producer(s):
- Mervyn LeRoy, Irving Asher
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