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From a woman's love-scarred heart to the heart of all America...comes this startling secret of happiness!
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.Read moreLess
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
The story
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
Cast & crew
Claude RainsPaul Ward
Fay BainterHannah
Jackie CooperPeter Trimble
Bonita GranvilleSally Ward
Henry O'NeillSam Trimble
Kay JohnsonMarcia Ward
James StephensonThomas Bradford
J. Farrell MacDonaldDr. Thompson
William PawleyJoe Ellis
Edward PawleyBill Ellis
John RidgelyCharles EllisExplore the crew
- Director
- Edmund Goulding
- Director of Photography
- Charles Rosher
- Screenplay
- Lenore J. Coffee
- Screenplay
- Cameron Rogers
- Screenplay
- Abem Finkel
- Original Music Composer
- Max Steiner