

The Girl of the Limberlost
DirectorMel Ferrer
“One of the Best-Beloved Books of All Time Becomes a Stirring Columbia Picture!”
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.
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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
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