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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.
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.
Dec 16, 1991 · Apple Annie (May Robson) is an apple-peddling, gin-soaked bag lady who harbors a deep secret. Though she appears to be the lowest of the low, she has for years been putting her illegitimate daughter through a convent school in Spain.
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 ...
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 has been...
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Sep 10, 2012 · A lady known as Apple Annie (Robson) is reduced to selling apples on the sidewalk for a living. She keeps the awful truth from her daughter by writing fanciful letters about high society on ...
Year: 1933. Original title: Lady for a Day. Synopsis: Story of a soft-hearted gangster who organizes his entire gang of thugs to help transform an elderly, rather seedy apple vendor into a perfect society lady.
