The Girl of the Limberlost (1945)

8.0/10 60 min Drama

Overview

Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock, hates her as she blames the girl for the father's death as he drowned in a quagmire on the way home the night the girl was born. The years-late revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings an attitude adjustment to the mother.

Cast

Ruth Nelson

Kate Comstock

Dorinda Clifton

Elnora Comstock

Loren Tindall

Pete Reed

Gloria Holden

Miss Nelson

Ernest Cossart

Roger Henley

Vanessa Brown

Helen Brownlee

James Bell

Wesley Sinton

Joyce Arling

Margaret Sinton

Charles Arnt

Hodges

Warren Mills

Chester Hopple

Lillian Bronson

Miss Blodgett

Peggy Converse

Jessie Reed

Carol Morris

Carrie

Jimmy Clark

Bob Stewart

Ida Moore

Bird Woman (uncredited)

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