Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows up, Louise is led to believe that her mother is a society matron called Mrs. E. Worthington Manville. Annie worries that her lie is in danger of being uncovered when she learns that Louise is sailing to New York with her new fiancé and his nobleman father.
Acting
May Robson's Annie—78 years old, Oscars first Best Actress nom.
Direction
Capra's sentimental machinery already humming at full power.
Writing
Damon Runyon's slang—snappy, specific, gloriously theatrical.
Director
Frank Capra
Warren William
Dave the Dude
May Robson
Apple Annie
Guy Kibbee
Judge Henry G. Blake
Glenda Farrell
Missouri Martin
Ned Sparks
Happy McGuire
Walter Connolly
Count Romero
Jean Parker
Louise
Nat Pendleton
Shakespeare
Barry Norton
Carlos
Halliwell Hobbes
Butler
Hobart Bosworth
Governor
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Inspector MacCreary
Irving Bacon
Pool Hall Dupe (uncredited)
Ward Bond
Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Hotel Mail Clerk Lloyd (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Capra remade this as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961—his final film, and Glenn Ford's last gift to him.
Pre-Code Hollywood let racketeers be heroes and poverty be funny; this barely squeaked through before the crackdown.
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