Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
You're going to fall in love with Carrie...a woman without money, reputation or friends, who fought for the happiness of two youngsters in as stirring a fight as you will witness on stage or screen or read about.
1936 · 1h 50m · Approved
Drama
Directed by
Wesley Ruggles
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Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Overview
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
Director and cast
- Wesley Ruggles Director
- Gladys George as Carrie Snyder
- Arline Judge as Lady
- John Howard as Paul Darnley
- Dudley Digges as Dennis Ringrose
- Harry Carey as Phil Yonne
- Isabel Jewell as Lilli Eipper
- Jackie Moran as Paul Darnley
- Charlene Wyatt as Lady
- John Wray as George Darnley
- William Collier Sr. as Ed Moresby
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