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Ann Vickers is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama directed by John Cromwell and starring Irene Dunne and Walter Huston. It is based on the novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis.
Ann Vickers: Directed by John Cromwell. With Irene Dunne, Walter Huston, Conrad Nagel, Bruce Cabot. A prison reformer and a controversial judge fall in love and have a child out of wedlock.
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- Drama, Romance
- John Cromwell
- 1933-10-06
The novel follows the heroine, Ann Vickers, from tomboy school girl in the late 19th century American Midwest, through college, and into her forties. It charts her postgraduate suffragist phase in the early 20th century.
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A film about a woman who works in prison reform and falls in love with a married judge during WWI. The plot follows her struggles with career, family, and scandal as she tries to find happiness and fulfillment.
After a military officer (Bruce Cabot) gets Ann Vickers (Irene Dunne) pregnant and leaves her, her baby dies during birth. Feeling stunned, Ann devotes herself to social work, taking a job in a...
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- John Cromwell
- Drama
- Irene Dunne
Ann Vickers may not be a great movie, but there’s no denying it’s a fascinating one. The titular Vickers is a social worker, sick of her upperclass upbringing. She rebels by working in the poorhouse, much to the chagrin of her oatmeal-flavored suitor Lindsey ( Nagel ) and much more to the bemusement of her best pal, Dr. Malvina Wormser ...
Budgeted at a cost of $317,476, Ann Vickers was a remarkably frank film for 1933, one that featured two out-of-wedlock pregnancies and a remarkably independent, almost feminist heroine by today's standards.
