Babies for Sale
1940 film by Charles Barton
- June 14, 1940 (1940-06-14)
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Babies for Sale is a 1940 American film noir crime drama film directed by Charles Barton and starring Rochelle Hudson, Glenn Ford and Miles Mander.
Plot
A newsman exposes a doctor running an adoption ring from a home for expectant mothers.
Cast
- Rochelle Hudson as Ruth Williams
- Glenn Ford as Steve Burton / Oscar Hanson
- Miles Mander as Dr. Wallace Rankin
- Joe De Stefani as Dr. John Gaines (as Joseph Stefani)
- Isabel Jewell as Edith Drake
- Georgia Caine as Iris Talbot
- Eva Hyde as Gerda Honaker
- Selmer Jackson as Arthur Kingsley
- Mary Currier as Mrs. Thelma Kingsley
- Edwin Stanley as Mr. Edwards
- Douglas Wood as Dr. Ateshire
- John Qualen as Howard Anderson
- Helen Brown as Mrs. Howard Anderson
Production notes
In April 1940 The New York Times reported that Evelyn Young was to receive the female lead in Babies for Sale.[1] Young would soon receive other lead roles in Columbia films but that of Babies for Sale went to Rochelle Hudson.
See also
References
- The Westerners: Interviews with Actors, Directors, Writers and Producers, by C. Courtney Joyner
- ^ Churchill, Douglas (April 12, 1940). "News of the screen". The New York Times. New York City. p. 24. ISSN 0362-4331 – via ProQuest.
Evelyn Young, a child star of fifteen years ago who was known as Evelyn Jennings, has received a leading role in "Babies for Sale" at Colombia.
External links
- Babies For Sale at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Babies for Sale at IMDb
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Films directed by Charles Barton
- Wagon Wheels (1934)
- Car 99 (1935)
- The Last Outpost (1935)
- Nevada (1935)
- Timothy's Quest (1936)
- And Sudden Death (1936)
- Murder with Pictures (1936)
- Rose Bowl (1936)
- The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)
- Forlorn River (1937)
- Thunder Trail (1937)
- Born to the West (1937)
- Behind Prison Gates (1939)
- Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939)
- My Son Is Guilty (1939)
- Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)
- Island of Doomed Men (1940)
- Babies for Sale (1940)
- Out West with the Peppers (1940)
- Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)
- The Phantom Submarine (1940)
- Nobody's Children (1940)
- Honolulu Lu (1941)
- The Richest Man in Town (1941)
- Sing for Your Supper (1941)
- Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)
- Shut My Big Mouth (1942)
- Sweetheart of the Fleet (1942)
- Parachute Nurse (1942)
- Lucky Legs (1942)
- The Spirit of Stanford (1942)
- Laugh Your Blues Away (1942)
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1942)
- Reveille with Beverly (1943)
- What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943)
- Is Everybody Happy? (1943)
- She Has What It Takes (1943)
- Beautiful but Broke (1944)
- Hey, Rookie (1944)
- Jam Session (1944)
- Louisiana Hayride (1944)
- The Beautiful Cheat (1945)
- Men in Her Diary (1945)
- The Time of Their Lives (1946)
- Smooth as Silk (1946)
- White Tie and Tails (1946)
- Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
- The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
- The Noose Hangs High (1948)
- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
- Mexican Hayride (1948)
- Africa Screams (1949)
- Free for All (1949)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
- The Milkman (1950)
- Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)
- Dance with Me, Henry (1956)
- The Shaggy Dog (1959)
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