''Nobody's Children'' is a 1940 American

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by Charles Barton and starring Edith Fellows, Billy Lee,

Georgia Caine Georgiana Caine (October 30, 1876 – April 4, 1964) was an American actress who performed both on Broadway and in more than 80 films in her 51-year career. Early career Born in San Francisco, California in 1876, the daughter of two Sha ...

and Lois Wilson. It was produced and distributed by

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.Fetrow p.345

Plot

Cast

* Edith Fellows as Pat * Billy Lee as Tommy *

as Mrs. Marshall * Lois Wilson as Miss Jamieson * Walter White Jr. as Walter White Jr. *

Ben Taggart Ben Taggart (April 5, 1889 – May 17, 1947) was an American actor. Taggart's stage experience began in Seattle, and he went on to play leading roles in Washington, Portland, San Francisco, Trenton, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia. He was described ...

as Mr. Millar * Mary Currier as Mrs. Millar * Mary Gordon as Mary *

Lillian West Lillian West (March 15, 1886 – April 23, 1970) was an American film actress. She appeared in more than 100 films between 1916 and 1958. Biography Mildred West was born in New York, New York. She was raised by relatives in Hoboken, New ...

as Miss Spellman * William Gould as Dr. Tovar * Dorothy Adams as Mrs. Alice Stone *

Russell Hicks Edward Russell Hicks (June 4, 1895 – June 1, 1957) was an American film character actor. Hicks was born in 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the ...

as Sen. Lawrence Hargrave * Georgia Backus as Mrs. Wynn * Ivan Miller as Mr. John Stone * Lloyd Whitlock as Mr. Gibney * Edythe Elliott as Mrs. King * John Marston as Mr. Ferber *

Mira McKinney Mira McKinney (October 23, 1892 – May 2, 1978) was an American actress. Personal life and death McKinney was married to Edd X. Russell. McKinney died in 1978 in Los Angeles, California, aged 85. She was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery ...

as Mrs. Ferber *

Edward Earle Edward Earle (16 July 1882 – 15 December 1972) was a Canadian-American stage, film and television actor. In a career which lasted from the 1910s to 1966, he appeared in almost 400 films between 1914 and 1956. He was born in Toronto and died ...

as Mr. Rogers * Joel Friedkin as Tim, the Grocery Man * Lee Millar as Dr. Gireaux * Freddie Chapman as Hal * Janet Chapman as Peggy * Joel Davis as Vincent * Nell Craig as Hospital Receptionist * Evelyn Young as Nurse

References

Bibliography

* Dick, Bernard F. ''Columbia Pictures: Portrait of a Studio''. University Press of Kentucky, 2015. * Etling, Laurence. ''Radio in the Movies: A History and Filmography, 1926–2010''. McFarland, 2011. * Fetrow, Alan G. ''Feature Films, 1940-1949: a United States Filmography''. McFarland, 1994.

External links

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