Acting
Virginia Weidler's manipulative angel act is weirdly magnetic.
Direction
Thiele balances sentiment with surprising moral ambiguity.
Director
Wilhelm Thiele
Virginia Weidler
Patricia Victoria Sanderson
Gene Reynolds
Thomas 'Tommy' Wilks
Guy Kibbee
Luther Marvin
Ian Hunter
Jim Creighton (Sentinel editor)
Elizabeth Patterson
Mrs. Perkins
Reginald Owen
Edwards, Marvin's Valet
Henry Hull
Red Wilks
Lois Wilson
Mrs. Ellen Creighton
Arthur Aylesworth
John Little, Orphanage Manager (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
Policeman (uncredited)
Harlan Briggs
Lem Dodd, Man in Jim's Office (uncredited)
Esther Dale
Miss Brown, Orphanage Secretary (uncredited)
John Dilson
Mr. Brown, Man in Jim's Office (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
New Sentinel editor (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Virginia Weidler stole scenes in The Philadelphia Story the next year, then retired at 16—Hollywood's most interesting what-if.
Released months before The Wizard of Oz, this captures MGM's pivot from scrappy kid dramas to Technicolor fantasy—one of the last gasps of the genre.
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