Gallant Lady | |
Director: | Gregory La Cava |
Producer: | Darryl F. Zanuck |
Story: | Douglas Z. Doty Gilbert Emery |
Starring: | Ann Harding Clive Brook Otto Kruger |
Music: | Alfred Newman |
Cinematography: | J. Peverell Marley |
Editing: | Barbara McLean |
Studio: | Twentieth Century Pictures |
Distributor: | United Artists |
Runtime: | 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.[1] [2] [3] It was a commercial and critical success on its release.[4] It was remade in 1938 as Always Goodbye with Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall.[5]
In New York Sally Wyndham watches in distress as her aviator fiancee is killed in a plane crash. Pregnant and dazed, 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 takes her to Italy and Paris. She eventually comes to hope that the child's adoptive mother will return her son to her.