| Release Date: | Jun 1938 |
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| Genre: | Drama |
| Awards: | Nominated for Oscar. |
| Runtime: | 92 min |
| Cast: | Claude Rains (Paul Ward) Fay Bainter (Hannah Parmalee) Jackie Cooper (Peter Trimble) Bonita Granville (Sally Ward) Henry O'Neill (Sam Trimble) Kay Johnson (Mrs. Marcia Ward) James Stephenson (Thomas Bradford) J. Farrell MacDonald (Dr. Thompson) William Pawley (Joe Ellis) Edward Pawley (Bill Ellis) John Ridgely (Charles Ellis) Mary Field (Hester, Trimble's Secretary) Edward McWade (Sloan the furniture dealer) John Harron (The Milkman (uncredited)) Jack Mower (Clerk (uncredited)) Cliff Saum (Mover (uncredited)) Peggy Stewart (Sally's Friend (uncredited)) Frank Sully (Butcher's Delivery Man (uncredited)) Douglas Wood (The Dean (uncredited)) |
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
