White Banners (1938)
Overview
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.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 3.596 |
Directed By
Edmund Goulding
Crew
Edmund Goulding
Charles Rosher
Lloyd C. Douglas
Abem Finkel
Cameron Rogers
Lenore J. Coffee
TOP CAST
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
Edward McWade
Sloan
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