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Lady for a Day is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra and starring May Robson. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1929 short story "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon.
Lady for a Day: Directed by Frank Capra. With Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell. A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.
A gangster helps an old apple-vendor pose as a society woman to fool her visiting daughter.
A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day. Apple Annie is an indigent woman who has always written to her daughter in Spain that she is a member of New York's high society.
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. An aging New York City fruit seller named Apple Annie (May Robson) attempts to maintain an outrageous charade. Long separated from her daughter, Louise (Jean Parker ...
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"Lady for a Day" is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay, penned by Robert Riskin, is adapted from Damon Runyon...
Upon receiving unexpected word from Louise (who hasn't seen Annie since infancy) that she is en route to America with her new fiancé and his father, a count, so the three of them can meet her, Annie panics, despairing that her beloved daughter will be destroyed by the deception.
