The Girl of the Limberlost (1945)
One of the Best-Beloved Books of All Time Becomes a Stirring Columbia Picture!
60 min
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.
- Release date
- October 11, 1945
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Ernest Gold
Cast
- Ruth Nelson as Kate Comstock
- Dorinda Clifton as Elnora Comstock
- Loren Tindall as Pete Reed
- Gloria Holden as Miss Nelson
- Ernest Cossart as Roger Henley
- Vanessa Brown as Helen Brownlee
- James Bell as Wesley Sinton
- Joyce Arling as Margaret Sinton
- Charles Arnt as Hodges
- Warren Mills as Chester Hopple
Crew
- Mel Ferrer · Director
- Erna Lazarus · Writer
- Gene Stratton-Porter · Writer
- Alexis Thurn-Taxis · Producer
- Ernest Gold · Composer
- Burnett Guffey · Cinematographer
- Al Clark · Editor