Blossoms in the Dust (1941) DVD5 - A Christmastime Story [DDR]

Blossoms in the Dust (1941) DVD5 - A Christmastime Story [DDR]

Blossoms in the Dust is a 1941 film which tells the true story of Edna Gladney who takes it upon herself to help orphaned children to find homes, despite the opposition of the "good" citizens who think that illegitimate children are beneath their interest. It stars Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt and Fay Holden.

The movie was adapted by Hugo Butler (uncredited), Anita Loos and Dorothy Yost (uncredited) from the story by Ralph Wheelwright.
It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Irving Asher.

It won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Color (Cedric Gibbons, Urie McCleary and Edwin B. Willis), and was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Greer Garson), Best Cinematography, Color and Best Picture.

CAST:-
Greer Garson - Edna Kahly Gladney
Walter Pidgeon - Samuel 'Sam' Gladney
Felix Bressart - Doctor Max Breslar
Marsha Hunt - Charlotte Kahly
Fay Holden - Mrs. Kahly
Samuel S. Hinds - Mr. George Kahly
Kathleen Howard - Mrs. Sarah Keats
George Lessey - Mr. Keats
William Henry - Allan Keats
Henry O'Neill - Judge Hartford
John Eldredge - Damon McPherson, Edna's Fiancé
Clinton Rosemond - Zeke, Edna's Servant
Theresa Harris - Cleo, Edna's Maid
Charles Arnt - G. Harrington Hedger
Cecil Cunningham - Mrs. Marcus Gilworth
Lucky Frye - one of the children,also in "Gone With the Wind"
David Clyde - Frederick, Kahly's Butler

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Produced by Irving Asher, Mervyn LeRoy
Written by Anita Loos

MOVIE REVIEW:- Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
The story is a highly fictionalized telling of the story of Edna Gladney, an early advocate for the rights of illegitimate children in Texas.

Edna Kahly and her adopted sister, Charlotte, are to be married. But, when Charlotte's mother-in-law-to-be discovers that Charlotte was a foundling, she declares the wedding must not occur, and Charlotte kills herself from shame. Meanwhile, Edna falls for a brash cashier, Sam Gladney, at the bank, and eventually marries him and moves with him to his home state of Texas.

Sam Gladney has a flour mill in Sherman, Texas, and at first the couple has an idyllic life, though after a difficult delivery Sam is told Edna must have no more children. Several years later, their son dies, and Sam's effort to replace him with a foundling fails. But the little girl's story touches Edna's heart, and she starts a day care center for the children of working women.

Sam's business fails, and they must auction off all their possessions. The local women take over the day care center, and Sam and Edna mve to Fort Worth, Texas, where he has a job in a mill. Edna starts a home for orphans and illegitimate children, and works hard to find them appropriate homes, matching parents to child by interests and inclinations. When a young woman comes to try to donate a large sum of money, Edna worms the young woman's story out of her, and discovers she is in a similar situation to poor Charlotte. After insisting the girl's fiance won't care that she is illegitimate, she decides to campaign to have the word illegitimate removed from Texas birth certificates.

SYNOPSIS:- Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
Edna marries Texan Sam Gladney, operator of a wheat mill. Edna discovers by chance how the law treats children who are without parents and decides to do something about it. She opens a home for foundlings and orphans and begins to place children in good homes, despite the opposition of "conservative" citizens, who would condemn illegitimate children for being born out of wedlock. Eventually Edna leads a fight in the Texas legislature to remove the stigma of illegitimacy from birth records in that state, while continuing to be an advocate for homeless children.

After succeeding in her quest, Edna faces one more trial—the little crippled boy she has raised from an infant and nursed back to health finds a new home at last. She is reluctant to let him go, but at last realizes it is for the best, and, as she tends to the two newest foundlings, brought to her door by a policeman, the music comes up and the End title card comes on the screen.



TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 4999 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 29.970
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages:English
RunTime 99 mins
Subtitles: Francais
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]
Duration: 99 mins