Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
Gilbert Emery
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (scenes deleted)
Matt McHugh
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (scenes deleted)
Hugh Sheridan
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (scenes deleted)
Kenneth Thomson
- Undetermined Secondary Role
- (scenes deleted)
Scotty Beckett
- Deedy - Age 2
- (uncredited)
James Burke
- Policeman in Park
- (uncredited)
Emile Chautard
- French Hotel Clerk
- (uncredited)
Theresa Maxwell Conover
- Aunt Martha
- (uncredited)
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
- Nanette - Deedy's Nurse
- (uncredited)
Jay Eaton
- Jay - Miss Sherwood's Associate
- (uncredited)
Edward Gargan
- Policeman on Street
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFilm debut of Scotty Beckett (uncredited).
- ConnectionsRemade as Always Goodbye (1938)
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One of those mothers who sacrifice all films of the 1930s...but with a twist.
The 1930s gave us a lot of films about all-sacrificing mothers, such as "So Big", "Stella Dallas" and "Madame X"...and audiences loved them. "Gallant Lady" is also one of these movies, though the way it ends isn't nearly the same as these other films.
The story begins with a flyer dying on takeoff on some historic flight. His girlfriend is left behind...pregnant. She meets a man who befriends her and he helps her through her pregnancy and when she gives up her child for adoption. As the years pass, Sally (Ann Harding) is able to straighten out her life and make a success of herself but when she takes a cruise something hard to believe occurs....her biological son is on the ship and he and Sally become friends. Later, when Sally is hired by the boy's future step-mother, she sees firsthand how cold and mean she is to the kid...so she vows to take her fiance away and marry him herself...and then she'll be both the boy's biological and step-mother! How does all this work out?
This is a very good film but it does suffer from a few coincidences too many...that the adopted boy's mother would soon die, that Sally is on the same ship as the kid, etcetera. But if you can look past it, it is a fascinating and enjoyable film. Well made.
The story begins with a flyer dying on takeoff on some historic flight. His girlfriend is left behind...pregnant. She meets a man who befriends her and he helps her through her pregnancy and when she gives up her child for adoption. As the years pass, Sally (Ann Harding) is able to straighten out her life and make a success of herself but when she takes a cruise something hard to believe occurs....her biological son is on the ship and he and Sally become friends. Later, when Sally is hired by the boy's future step-mother, she sees firsthand how cold and mean she is to the kid...so she vows to take her fiance away and marry him herself...and then she'll be both the boy's biological and step-mother! How does all this work out?
This is a very good film but it does suffer from a few coincidences too many...that the adopted boy's mother would soon die, that Sally is on the same ship as the kid, etcetera. But if you can look past it, it is a fascinating and enjoyable film. Well made.
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- planktonrules
- May 16, 2024
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- Kärlekens gåta
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- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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