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EVERY WOMAN'S SHAME --and EVERY WOMAN'S GLORY
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.Read moreLess
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
The story
Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.
Cast & crew
Lionel BarrymoreEli Watt
May RobsonSarah
Dorothy JordanLetty McGinnis
Joel McCreaJimmy Watt
Frances DeeJoan Stockton
David LandauMcGinnis
Buster PhelpsJimmy Watt - Age 6
James BushBill Radford
Oscar ApfelJohn Radford
Samuel S. HindsDr. Babcock
Hale HamiltonDr. TillinghastExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Lester Cohen
- Screenplay
- Samuel Ornitz
- Director
- John S. Robertson