Were they the innocent victims of a whispering campaign?
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's lives.
- 7.1
- 1936
- Released
- 1h 33m
Miriam Hopkins
Martha Dobie
Merle Oberon
Karen Wright
Joel McCrea
Dr. Joseph 'Joe' Cardin
Catherine Doucet
Lily Mortar
Alma Kruger
Amelia Tilford
Bonita Granville
Mary Tilford
Marcia Mae Jones
Rosalie Wells
Carmencita Johnson
Evelyn
Mary Anne Durkin
Joyce Walton
Margaret Hamilton
Agatha
Walter Brennan
Taxi Driver
Joan Barclay
Schoolgirl (uncredited)
Al Bridge
Mrs. Walton's Chauffeur (uncredited)Sally Conlin
Schoolgirl (uncredited)Marie Louise Cooper
Helen Burton (uncredited)
Frank McGlynn Sr.
Judge (uncredited)
Greta Meyer
Viennese Waitress (uncredited)
Tommy Bupp
Boy on Merry-Go-Round (uncredited)Lottie Williams
Concerned Townswoman (uncredited)
Released
en
- #blackmail
- #lie
- #scandal
- #spoiled child
- #teacher
- #school
- #schoolgirl
Reviews
Rarely, if ever, do I rate the child as the star of a film, but Bonita Granville is very, very good as the odious, obnoxious, hateful, spiteful, spoiled "Mary" in this story of two teachers - Merle Oberon and Miriam Hopkins - who fall for the doctor - Joel McCrea. When these old friends try to discipline the ghastly child for persistent lateness, she flees to her wealthy grandmother and concocts a