Our Neighbors the Carters (1939)
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The Carter Family finds itself in serious financial difficulty when its patriarch, druggist Doc Carter (Frank Craven), is all but forced out of business by a neighboring chain store. Doc isn't worried so much for himself and his wife Emma (Fay Bainter) as he is for his five children, played by Scotty Beckett, Bennie Bartlett, Donald Brenon, Mary Thomas and Gloria Carter (who real name is the same as her "reel" name). But there may be a way out: wealthy Bill and Gloria Hastings (Edmund Lowe, Genevieve Tobin), longtime friends of the Carters, have offered to adopt the couple's polio-stricken son Dickie (Beckett) for a substantial fee. Doc and Emma refuse this offer, but their somewhat more practical children offer themselves up for adoption rather than separate little Dickie from his parents. The ultimately happy denoument suggests that Paramount Pictures hoped to develop a "Carter Family" series, though no such project developed. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Fay Bainter - Ellen Carter
- Edmund Lowe - Bill Hastings
- Mary Thomas - Mattie Carter
- Bennie Bartlett - Junior Carter
- Thurston Hall - Mr. Guilfoyle
- Edward McWade - Pop Hagen
- Richard Clayton - Peter Bush
- John Conte - Reporter
- Olaf Hytten - Butler
- Richard Denning - Pilot
- Janet Waldo
- Patsy Mace - Receptionist
- Judith King - Secretary
- Guy Wilkerson - Father
- Grace Hayle
- Frank Craven - Doc Carter
- Genevieve Tobin - Gloria Hastings
- Scotty Beckett - Dickie Carter
- Nana Bryant - Louise Wilcox
- Granville Bates - Joseph Laurence
- Norman Phillips - Henry Laurence
- Frank Reicher - Dr. Proser
- Martha Mears - Girl Reporter
- George Anderson - Drug Company Representative
- Eddie Marr - Storekeeper
- Frank O'Connor
- Audrey Maynard - Usherette
- Betty Farrington - Woman
- Frances Morris - Secretary to Mr. Guilfoyle
- Billy Engle - Man
- Director(s):
- Ralph Murphy
- Writer(s):
- S.K. Lauren
- Producer(s):
- Charles R. Rogers
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