Gallant Lady (1934 film)

Gallant Lady
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Gregory La Cava
Screenplay by Sam Mintz
Story by Douglas Z. Doty
Gilbert Emery
Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring Ann Harding
Clive Brook
Otto Kruger
Cinematography J. Peverell Marley
Edited by Barbara McLean
Music by Alfred Newman
Production
company
Distributed by United Artists
Release date
  • January 5, 1934
Running time
 84 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Gallant Lady is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Ann Harding, Clive Brook and Otto Kruger. It was a production of Darryl F. Zanuck's independent company Twentieth Century Pictures. The film was released on January 5, 1934, by United Artists. It was a commercial and critical success on its release. It was remade in 1938 as Always Goodbye with Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall.

Plot

In New York Sally Wyndham watches in distress as her aviator fiancee is killed in a plane crash. Pregnant and dazes, she wanders the streets and encounters Dan Pritchard, a doctor who served a two year prison sentence for committing what he considered a mercy killing on one of his patients. With his support, she gives up her child for adoption to a couple of his friends. Her quest for stability and happiness later taken her to Italy and Paris. She eventually comes to hope that the child's adoptive mother will return her son to her.

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