White Banners

White Banners

92 mins | Drama | June 23, 1938

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.

White Banners

92 mins | Drama | June 23, 1938

White Banners
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers
Original title White Banners
Directors Edmund Goulding
Writers Lloyd C. Douglas, Cameron Rogers, Abem Finkel, Lenore J. Coffee

Cast

Claude Rains

as Paul Ward

Fay Bainter

as Hannah

Jackie Cooper

as Peter Trimble

Bonita Granville

as Sally Ward

Henry O'Neill

as Sam Trimble

Kay Johnson

as Marcia Ward

James Stephenson

as Thomas Bradford

J. Farrell MacDonald

as Dr. Thompson

William Pawley

as Joe Ellis

Edward Pawley

as Bill Ellis

John Ridgely

as Charles Ellis

Mary Field

as Hester

Edward McWade

as Sloan