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Most Precious Thing in Life (1934)

Directed by Lambert Hillyer

Pressured by her husband’s blue-blood family to grant him a divorce for the good of their son, Ellen Holmes does so, eventually winding up as a maid at the school where her grown son is a student. Here, from a discreet distance, she witnesses his passage through life, and restrains herself from intervening until she sees history repeating itself.

Columbia Pictures Corp. Producer: Robert North. Screenwriter: Ethel Hill, Dore Schary. Cinematographer: John Stumar. Editor: Richard Cahoon. Cast: Richard Cromwell, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, Mary Forbes.

35mm, b/w, 69 min.