White Banners(1938)
From a woman's love-scarred heart to the heart of all America...comes this startling secret of happiness!
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.
Movie: White Banners
Top 10 Billed Cast
Paul Ward
Hannah
Peter Trimble
Sally Ward
Sam Trimble
Marcia Ward
Thomas Bradford
Dr. Thompson
Joe Ellis
Bill Ellis
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