Ladies of the Big House (1932)
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Sylvia Sidney is again in her "victim" mode in Paramount's Ladies of the Big House. Shortly after their wedding, young innocents Kathleen (Sylvia Sidney) and Standish (Gene Raymond) are arrested for murder on circumstantial evidence. The poor kids don't have a chance: the case is… More Sylvia Sidney is again in her "victim" mode in Paramount's Ladies of the Big House. Shortly after their wedding, young innocents Kathleen (Sylvia Sidney) and Standish (Gene Raymond) are arrested for murder on circumstantial evidence. The poor kids don't have a chance: the case is being prosecuted by crooked district attorney Doremus (Rockliffe Fellowes), while the local reporters have a field day crucifying Kathleen in the press thanks to her dubious relationship with the dead man. The couple is found guilty, whereupon Kathleen is thrown into a cell block with several hardened female cons. Hoping to save her husband from going to the electric chair, Kathleen participates in a prison break. There are many more hardships and disasters in store for our heroine before she is able to prove Standish's innocence. If the script of Ladies of the Big House seems a bit more authentic than usual, it may be because it was written by an actual prison convict named Ernest Booth. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Marion Gering
- Genres
- Drama, Classics
- In Theaters
- Dec 26, 1931 Wide
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
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Cast
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Sylvia Sidney
as Kathleen Storm
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Gene Raymond
as Standish McNeil
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Wynne Gibson
as Susie Thompson
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Rockliffe Fellowes
as Martin Doremus
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Earl Foxe
as Kid Athens
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Frank Sheridan
as Warden Hecker
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Edna Bennett
as The Countess
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Fritzi Ridgeway
as Reno Maggie
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Louise Beavers
as Ivory
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Miriam Goldina
as The Mexican Woman
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Jane Darwell
as Mrs. Turner
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Mary Foy
as Mrs. Lowry
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Noel Francis
as Thelma
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Esther Howard
as Clara Newman
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Purnell Pratt
as John Hartman
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Evelyn Preer
as Black Woman
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Hilda Vaughn
as Millie
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Theodore von Eltz
as Frazer
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Ruth Lyons
as Gertie