Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952)
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Synopsis of Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
The upbeat title belies the film's often melancholy subject matter. Based on a novel by Ferdinand Reyher, Nellie stars David Wayne as a small town barber in the early 20th century. Wayne's bored wife (Jean Peters) leaves him for a city slicker (Hugh Marlowe), whereupon both are killed in a train accident. Wayne does his best to raise his two children alone, but the oldest son (Tommy Morton) becomes a criminal and is shot down in a Chicago gang war (a startlingly graphic sequence for a 1952 film). Wayne's life seems to be one disaster after another, but he perseveres, and upon his town's 50th anniversary he is honored as a pillar of his community. Somehow all of the previous tragedies are compensated for by the presence of Wayne's doting granddaughter Nellie (Helene Stanley). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
- David Wayne - Ben Halper
- Hugh Marlowe - Ed Jordan
- Helene Stanley - Eadie Jordan
- Joyce MacKenzie - Bessie Jordan
- Merry Anders - Adeline
- Charles Watts - Mr. Burdge
- Dan White - Doc Thomas
- William Walker - Trooper
- Kermit Echols - Hotel Clerk
- Maudie Prickett - Mrs. Burdge
- Jean Peters - Nellie
- Albert Dekker - Lloyd Slocum
- Tom Morton - Ben Halper
- Richard Karlan - Kava
- Warren Stevens - McCauley
- David Wolfe - Sam Eichenbogen
- Noreen Corcoran - Adeline Halper, Age 6
- James Griffith - Ollie
- Tony Barr - Broidy
- Alan Hale, Jr. - George Oliphant
- Director(s):
- Henry King
- Writer(s):
- Maxwell Shane, Allan G. Scott
- Producer(s):
- George Jessel
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