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Rating: 7 stars

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TCM wrongly convicted mother prison gambling daughter con artist

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The House on 56th Street (1933)

Directed by Robert Florey

Drama

Overview

A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.

Length 68 minutes

Actors

Kay Francis | Ricardo Cortez | Gene Raymond | John Halliday | Margaret Lindsay | Frank McHugh | William 'Stage' Boyd | Hardie Albright | Sheila Terry | Phillip Reed | Philip Faversham | Walter Walker | Nella Walker | William Bailey | Helen Barclay | Symona Boniface | André Cheron | Frank Darien | George Davis | Lester Dorr | Jesse Graves | Julia Griffith | Sam Harris | Olaf Hytten | Lorena Layson | Wilfred Lucas | John Marston | Frank McLure | Lee Moran | Jack Mower | Dennis O'Keefe | Henry O'Neill | Russ Powell | Paul Power | George Reed | Ruth Warren | Stanhope Wheatcroft | Leo White | Renee Whitney | Pat Wing

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Some suspension of belief required but this is probably the best Kay Francis leading role I’ve seen. She goes to prison for a crime she doesn’t commit the gets out some 20 years later (maybe it’s not that long) then starts up a gambling racket with a conman in her old house. She’s really great in this.

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