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Film details
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Featuring
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Country
USA
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Year
1959
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Genre
Melodrama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
Sirk’s final Hollywood feature is a remake of John Stahl’s film of Fannie Hurst’s novel about two single mothers, one white, one black, striving together in a man’s world. It focuses, with typically sharp irony and intelligence, on issues of racial prejudice and inequality. The rags-to-riches dynamic is brilliantly undercut in the film’s later scenes.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Lora Meredith
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Steve Archer
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Susie Meredith, age 16
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Sarah Jane Johnson, age 18
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Allen Loomis
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David Edwards
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Annie Johnson
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Sarah Jane Johnson, age 8
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Susie Meredith, age 6
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young man
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photographer
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show girl
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Frankie
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receptionist
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burly man
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minister
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Tom, stage manager
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fat man
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teacher
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Romano
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Fay
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singing [song] "Trouble of the World"
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[Geraldine Moore, Broadway star]
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[McKinney, milkman]
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[Louise]
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[Preston Mitchell]
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[Kenneth]
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[doctor]
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[doctor]
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[schoolteacher]
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[actress]
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[dog owner]
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[waiter]
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[waiter]
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[watchman]
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[policeman]
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[policeman]
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[truck driver]
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[furniture mover]
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Credits
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Unknown:
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Produced by
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[Production Manager]
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Assistant Director
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[Assistant Director]
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Screenplay by
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Screenplay by
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Based on the novel by
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Director of Photography
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Special Photography
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Film Editor
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Art Direction
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Art Direction
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Set Decorations
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Set Decorations
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Gowns
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Gowns for Lana Turner by
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Miss [Lana] Turner's Jewels by
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Make-up
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Hair Stylist
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{Colour by}
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Eastman Color by
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Music
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Music Supervision by
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Sound
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Sound
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Sound System
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