Blossoms in the Dust

Blossoms in the Dust

1941 | 1h 39m | Drama, Biography | TV-G

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Brief Synopsis

The true life story of Edna Gladney, who, after overcoming trials that would defeat a lesser person, devotes her life to caring for orphaned and unwanted children, as she strives to end the stigma and shame forced upon children born outside of wedlock.

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Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Mervyn LeRoy

CAST

Greer Garson

Walter Pidgeon

Felix Bressart

Marsha Hunt

Fay Holden

PRODUCERS

Irving Asher

WRITERS

Anita Loos

Host Intros

01:49
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Blossoms In The Dust (1941)
Intro Aired: Oct 2017
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Blossoms In The Dust, 1941.
01:37
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Blossoms In The Dust (1941)
Intro Aired: Aug 2017
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Blossoms In The Dust, 1941.
02:01
Robert Osborne Intro -- Blossoms In The Dust (1941)
Intro Aired: Nov 2015
Robert Osborne introduces Blossoms In The Dust, 1941.

Related Videos

03:14
Blossoms In The Dust -- (Movie Clip) Sixty Babies A Year
Clip
Fort Worth flour baron Sam Gladney (Walter Pidgeon) arrives homes as wife Edna (Greer Garson) is about to give birth, stand-in Doctor Bresler (Felix Bressart) in his wake, the men later in discussion with Doctor West (Oscar O'Shea), in MGM's Blossoms In The Dust, 1941.
03:32
Blossoms In The Dust -- (Movie Clip) Do I Look Like A Hussy?
Clip
After a prologue establishing turn-of-the century Wisconsin, first the parents (Fay Holden, Samuel S. Hinds) then the heroine Edna (Greer Garson) with a glorious technicolor entrance, joining sister Charlotte (Marsha Hunt), in MGM's glossy bio-pic Blossoms In The Dust 1941.
03:58
Blossoms In The Dust -- (Movie Clip) Come To My Rescue
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Having lost a child and accepted she cannot have another, Edna (Greer Garson) throws herself into the role of society hostess, but husband Sam (Walter Pidgeon) and Doctor Bresler (Felix Bressart) spring a plot, at a party in Fort Worth, 1914, in Blossoms In The Dust, 1941.
03:05
Blossoms In The Dust - (Original Trailer)
Trailer
Greer Garson plays the real-life Texas heroine Edna Gladney in this MGM Technicolor drama.

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