''White Woman'' is a 1933 American
pre-Code
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drama film
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directed by
Stuart Walker and starring
Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard (born Jane Alice Peters; October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress, particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in screwball comedies. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard ...
,
Charles Laughton
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, and
Charles Bickford
Charles Ambrose Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) was an American actor known for supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for '' The Song of Bernadette'' (1943), '' The F ...
.
[''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40'' published by The American Film Institute c.1993] The screenplay concerns a young widow who remarries and accompanies her husband to his remote jungle rubber plantation.
One of hundreds of Paramount films held in limbo by Universal Studios. Universal gained ownership of Paramount features produced between 1929 and 1949. Paramount remade the film in 1939 as ''
Island of Lost Men'', with
Anna May Wong
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,
J. Carrol Naish
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Naish received two Oscar nominations for his supporting roles in the films ''Sahara' ...
and
Broderick Crawford
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in the roles originated by Lombard, Laughton and Bickford. It was directed by
Kurt Neumann.
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Plot
Cast
*Carole Lombard
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as Judith Denning
*Charles Laughton
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as Horace H. Prin
*Charles Bickford
Charles Ambrose Bickford (January 1, 1891 – November 9, 1967) was an American actor known for supporting roles. He was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for '' The Song of Bernadette'' (1943), '' The F ...
as Ballister
* Kent Taylor as David von Elst
*Percy Kilbride
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Early life
Kilbride was ...
as Jakey
* James Bell as Hambly
* Charles Middleton as Fenton (as Charles B. Middleton)
*Claude King
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Biography
King was born in Keithville in southern Caddo Parish sou ...
as C. M. Chisholm
*Ethel Griffies
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as Mrs. Chisholm
*Marc Lawrence
Marc Lawrence (born Max Goldsmith; February 17, 1910 – November 28, 2005) was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. He has also been credited as F. A. Foss, Marc Laurence and Marc C. Lawrence.
Early life
Lawrence w ...
as Connors
;Other uncredited cast members (alphabetically)
*Noble Johnson
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as Native Chief
*Tetsu Komai
(23 April 1894 – 10 August 1970), also known as Tetsuo Komai, was a Japanese-American actor, known for his minor roles in Hollywood films.
Biography
Born in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Komai had small parts in over 50 films from the 1920s until the ...
as Chisholm Servant
* Victor Wong as Waiter
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1933 films
1933 drama films
American black-and-white films
American drama films
American films based on plays
Films directed by Stuart Walker
Films set in Malaysia
Paramount Pictures films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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