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Blossoms in the Dust is a 1941 American biographical drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt, Fay Holden and Samuel S. Hinds. It tells the story of Edna Gladney , who helped orphaned children find homes and began a campaign to remove the word "illegitimate" from Texas birth ...
A film based on the true story of Edna Gladney, who founded an adoption agency for unwanted children in Texas. See the full list of actors, writers, directors and other crew members who worked on this classic drama.
Summaries. After losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children. Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. When by chance she discovers how the law treats children who are without parents, she decides to do something ...
Blossoms in the Dust was a 1941 Best Picture nomination, and earned nominations for Garson, as well as for its cinematography, and won an Oscar® for Cedric Gibbons' set design. LeRoy later recalled that with the number of small children perpetually on the set of Blossoms the crew took to calling the film Bugs in the Mud .
- Mervyn Leroy, Walter Strohm
- Greer Garson
Blossoms in the Dust. Rent Blossoms in the Dust on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. Edna Gladney lost her son when he was very young. By chance she ...
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Academy Award-winner Greer Garson ("Mrs. Miniver") received her second Oscar nomination for her moving portrayal of a Texas woman who overcomes the losses of...
Blossoms in the Dust is a 1941 American biographical drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt, Fay Holden and Samuel S. Hinds. It tells the story of Edna Gladney, who helped orphaned children find homes and began a campaign to remove the word "illegitimate" from Texas birth certificates, despite the opposition of "good" citizens ...
