Life Begins

Sep 10, 1932

1h 11m

★ 6.0

Overview

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and situations.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

First National Pictures

The Vitaphone Corporation

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Grace Sutton

Loretta Young

Jed Sutton

Eric Linden

Miss Bowers

Aline MacMahon

Florette

Glenda Farrell

Mrs. West

Clara Blandick

Dr. Brett

Preston Foster

Ringer Banks

Frank McHugh

Dr. Tubby

Walter Walker

Dr. Cramm

Hale Hamilton

Mrs. McGilvery

Vivienne Osborne

A Patient

Dorothy Peterson

First Druggist (uncredited)

A.S. Byron

Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drives mingle when the visiting Dr. Jano takes advantage of a crowd to get inappropriately close to the girl. Repulsed by him but inspired by an inner burning, Amalia decides it is her God-given mission to save the doctor from his behavior, and she begins to stalk Dr. Jano, becoming a most unusual voyeur.

6.7

The Miracle Woman

Jul 17, 1931

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind former aviator restore her faith and happiness?

6.2

Adventure

Dec 28, 1945

A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

5.4

Appassionata

Feb 2, 1944

A classic melodrama about the famous pianist Thomas Dahlhoff.

6.0

Cleopatra

Oct 5, 1934

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

6.5

Of Human Bondage

Jul 20, 1934

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

5.3

John and the Hole

Aug 6, 2021

While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker — a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, where he holds them captive. As they anxiously wait for John to free them from the hole, the boy returns home, where he can finally do what he wants.

4.6

The Scarlet Letter

Sep 18, 1934

In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.

6.0

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Sep 21, 1934

Remarkable poet Elizabeth Barrett is slowly recovering from a crippling illness with the help of her siblings, especially her youngest sister, Henrietta, but feels stifled by the domestic tyranny of her wealthy widowed father. When she meets fellow poet Robert Browning in a romantic first encounter, her heart belongs to him. However, her controlling father has no intention of allowing her out of his sight.

6.9

Sadie McKee

May 9, 1934

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.

7.0

The Great Lie

Apr 5, 1941

After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.

5.5

Emperor Jones

Sep 29, 1933

Unscrupulously ambitious, Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and, through bluff and bravado, finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

6.1

Ladies They Talk About

Feb 4, 1933

A moll, imprisoned after participating in a bank robbery, helps with a breakout plot.

6.1

Employees' Entrance

Feb 11, 1933

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20 years or of toying with the affections of every woman he meets. One such victim is Madeline, a beautiful young woman in need of a job. Anderson hires her as a salesgirl, but not before the two spend the night together. Madeline is ashamed, especially after she falls for Martin West, a rising young star at the store. Her biggest fear is that Martin finds out the truth about her "career move."

5.5

Ann Vickers

Sep 26, 1933

After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.

6.0

Leaving

Aug 12, 2009

A bourgeois housewife, planning to go back to work as a physiotherapist after having devoted 20 years to her husband and two children, has her comfortable, elegant life turned upside down when she falls for a Spanish builder and begins a runaway affair.