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  1. Lady for a Day is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1929 short story "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon. It was the first film for which Capra received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and the first Columbia Pictures release to be nominated for Best ...

  2. 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.

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    • Comedy, Drama
    • Frank Capra
    • 1933-09-13
  3. Lady for a Day (1933) - Turner Classic Movies. 1h 28m 1933. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Awards. Articles & Reviews. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A gangster helps an old apple-vendor pose as a society woman to fool her visiting daughter. Cast & Crew. Read More. Frank Capra. Director. Warren William. Dave the Dude.

    • Frank Capra, Charles C. Coleman
    • Warren William
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  5. Lady for a Day. 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), who...

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    • Warren William
    • Frank Capra
    • Comedy, Drama
  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. Lady for a Day is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the 1929 short story "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon. It was the first film for which Capra received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and the first Columbia Pictures release to be nominated for Best ...

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