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Academy Award Sound Recording 1935 · Nominated
Academy Award Assistant Director 1935 · Nominated
Academy Award Outstanding Production 1935 · Nominated
Academy Award Sound Recording 1935 · Nominated
Academy Award Assistant Director 1935 · Nominated
Academy Award Outstanding Production 1935 · Nominated
Widow Bea Pullman (Claudette Colbert) and her daughter, Jessie, take in a fair-skinned black girl and her mother, housekeeper Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers). Struggling to make ends meet, Delilah shares her family pancake recipe with Bea, and the two decide to start a business on the Atlantic City boardwalk. Together, the women find great...