White Banners
From a woman's love-scarred heart to the heart of all America...comes this startling secret of happiness!
1938 | 92m | English
Popularity: 4 (history)
| Director: | Edmund Goulding |
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| Writer: | Lloyd C. Douglas, Abem Finkel, Cameron Rogers, Lenore J. Coffee |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 23, 1938 |
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| Director: | Edmund Goulding |
| Writer: | Lloyd C. Douglas, Abem Finkel, Cameron Rogers, Lenore J. Coffee |
| Genres: | Drama |
| Keywords | homeless person |
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| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 30, 2026 Entered: Apr 26, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| 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 |
| Name | Job |
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| Edmund Goulding | Director |
| Charles Rosher | Director of Photography |
| Lloyd C. Douglas | Story |
| Abem Finkel | Screenplay |
| Cameron Rogers | Screenplay |
| Lenore J. Coffee | Screenplay |
| Max Steiner | Original Music Composer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2025 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
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