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Jan 28, 1995 · Butterbox Babies: Directed by Don McBrearty. With Susan Clark, Peter MacNeill, Catherine Fitch, Michael Riley. A couple operates a shady maternity home in 1930s/1940s Nova Scotia. Based on a true story.
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- Drama
- Don McBrearty
- 1995-01-28
Butterbox Babies is a film adapted from the book Butterbox Babies by Bette L. Cahill, which is based on the true story of the Ideal Maternity Home, a home for unwed pregnant mothers, during the Great Depression and Second World War.
- Butterbox Babies by Bette L. Cahill
- English
- Canada
- Sullivan Entertainment
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Fact-based drama about Nova Scotia midwife Lila Young (Susan Clark), who ran a home for unwed mothers during the 1930s and '40s, and eventually started selling the infants to support her "mission."...
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Sep 9, 2023 · Butterbox Babies: The 1955 Film is Inspired by a Real-Life Couple. Shubhabrata Dutta. September 9, 2023. Directed by Don McBrearty, ‘Butterbox Babies’ tells the story of an adoption ring being run by William Peach Young and his wife, Lila Gladys Young, in Nova Scotia, Canada, in the 1930s.
A health inspector (Michael Riley) exposes a couple (Susan Clark, Peter McNeil) running an adoption ring from a home for unwed mothers in 1930s-'40s Nova Scotia.