Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field

60 mins | Drama, Romance | Jan. 5, 1930

Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.

Lilies of the Field

60 mins | Drama, Romance | Jan. 5, 1930

Lilies of the Field
Mildred Harker loses custody of her child in a messy divorce settlement. Leaving her hometown in disgrace, Mildred heads to New York, where after a crash course in the school of hard knocks she joins the chorus of a Ziegfeld-like musical revue. Now a full-fledged gold-digger, she enjoys the favors of backstage johnnies and elderly sugar daddies, but finally finds true love in the form of Park Avenue socialite Ted Willing.
Producers First National Pictures
Original title Lilies of the Field
Directors Alexander Korda
Writers John F. Goodrich, William Hurlbut

Cast

Corinne Griffith

as Mildred Harker

Ralph Forbes

as Ted Willing

John Loder

as Walter Harker

Eve Southern

as Pink

Jean Laverty

as Gertie

Tyler Brooke

as Bert Miller

Freeman Wood

as Lewis Conroy

Anne Schaefer

as First Maid

Clarissa Selwynne

as Second Maid

Patsy Page

as Baby

George Beranger

as Barber

Douglas Gerrard

as Headwaiter

Rita La Roy

as Florette

Betty Boyd

as Joyce

May Boley

as Maizie

Virginia Bruce

as Doris

Raymond Largay

as Walter Harker's Lawyer

Joseph E. Bernard

as Mildred Hawker's Lawyer

Tenen Holtz

as Paymaster

Wilfred Noy

as Butler

Alice Moe

as Third Maid