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From a woman's love-scarred heart to the heart of all America...comes this startling secret of happiness!

NR 1938 · 92 min · ★ 6.1 · Drama

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.

Directed by Edmund Goulding · Written by Lloyd C. Douglas

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Claude Rains Paul Ward
Fay Bainter Hannah
Jackie Cooper Peter Trimble
Bonita Granville Sally Ward
Henry O'Neill Sam Trimble
Kay Johnson Marcia Ward
James Stephenson Thomas Bradford
J. Farrell MacDonald Dr. Thompson
William Pawley Joe Ellis
Edward Pawley Bill Ellis
John Ridgely Charles Ellis
Mary Field Hester

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