Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

110 mins | Drama | Oct. 6, 1936

Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie

110 mins | Drama | Oct. 6, 1936

Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Paramount
Original title Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Directors Wesley Ruggles
Writers Barry Benefield, Claude Binyon

Cast

Gladys George

as Carrie Snyder

Arline Judge

as Lady

John Howard

as Paul Darnley

Dudley Digges

as Dennis Ringrose

Harry Carey

as Phil Yonne

Isabel Jewell

as Lilli Eipper

Jackie Moran

as Paul Darnley

Charlene Wyatt

as Lady

John Wray

as George Darnley

William Collier Sr.

as Ed Moresby

Hattie McDaniel

as Ellen Belle

Lew Payton

as Lon Olds

Maude Eburne

as Maggie Devlin

Grady Sutton

as Mat Burdon

Janet Young

as Mrs. Darnley

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

as Madame Odette Dessolles

Helen Lowell

as Mrs. Wadsworth

Bernard Suss

as Franz Eipper

George 'Gabby' Hayes

as Bearded Man

Irving Bacon

as Drug Store Clerk

Olive Hatch

as Girl

Nick Lukats

as Boy

Don Zelaya

as Nick Dorapopolos

John Beck

as Vigorous Councilman

Mildred Booth

as Customer

Chick Collins

as Driver

Florence Dudley

as Permanent Wave Operator

Ralph Dunn

as G-Man

Robert Ellsworth

as Subway Guard

Charles Herzinger

as Councilman

Herbert Heywood

as Chairman of Council

Wally Maher

as Driver of Car

Ralph Malone

as Poker Face

Tom Manning

as Councilman

Howard M. Mitchell

as Councilman

Frances Morris

as Permanent Wave Operator

Charlotte Ogden

as Matron

Rita Owin

as Saleslady

Jack Stoney

as Subway Guard

Mark Strong

as Councilman (uncredited)

Leora Thatcher

as Woman in Department Store

Howard Truesdale

as Doctor

Pat West

as Man in Automat