Why Girls Leave Home

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Movie
Original title Why Girls Leave Home
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1945
length 69 minutes
Rod
Director William Berke
script Fanya Foss ,
Bradford Ropes
production Samuel Sax
music Walter Greene
camera Mack Stengler
cut Carl Pierson
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Why Girls Leave Home (German Why leave girls their home or why girls leave home ) is an American crime film drama by William Berke from the year 1945. act Starring Lola Lane , Sheldon Leonard and Pamela Blake and Elisha Cook Jr. .

On one of the film posters from that time, the film advertised with the following words: “Factual! Sensational! Revealing! The unvarnished truth about the thousands who trade family ties for flaming thrills! " , naked conflict between decency and desire! She left home with stardust in her eyes… only to become a tool in the hands of ruthless criminals. ”('The shocking, naked conflict between decency and desire! She left her home with stardust in her eyes, only to find a tool in the Hands of ruthless criminals. ')

action

Diana Leslie is saved from drowning on a foggy night by reporter Chris Williams. By a note that the young woman carries with her, which is supposed to suggest a suicide, put on alert, Williams rather believes that Diana Leslie should be murdered on the pier. This is also supported by the fact that she had made an appointment with him at the dock.

The reporter is doing everything possible to clear up the incident. He seeks out the people who must have known Diana well. Her parents feel responsible for not preventing Diana from accompanying the clarinet player Jimmie Lobo to the “Kitten Club”, which led her daughter to take up a job as a singer there. Nor had they prevented Diana from being beaten by her brother Ted and from having to look after her younger sister all too often. Her unappealing home had also contributed to the fact that Diana did not feel comfortable there and tried to make her dream of a career as a singer come true.

From Flo, one of the showgirls at the Kitten Club, Williams learns that Diana, while auditioning, drew the wrath of the singer Marion Mason, who looked too deeply into the glass more than once. She was then pushed into the line of girls whose job it was to entice customers into illegal gambling. If one of the men lost a large sum, the girls would have benefited as they would have received 10 percent of the lost money. As a result, some of the stupid people who were misled, like Wilbur Harris and Ed Blake, lost a lot of money in rigged games. Harris then committed suicide and Blake was killed in a scuffle. The girls were obliged to keep the strictest silence about the procedure. Diana has changed a lot during this time and has become hard. When her younger sister wanted to see her debut as the singer of the ballad Call Me at the club, she angrily sent her home and ordered her to keep what she saw to herself. Flo goes on to say that Diana gradually attracted a lot of hatred. Club owners Steve Raymond and Irene Mitchell had planned to dump them for Alice, a hopeful singer. Diana did not want to put up with that and had a plan regarding the "Kitten Club".

Diana wrote Flo a letter from the hospital, but it fell into Marion's hands. Shortly afterwards, the car in which Chris and Flo are, is chased and pushed off the road. Flo does not survive the vehicle crash. When Chris tries to find Marion, he finds her dead in her apartment. A little later, Chris has to realize that Steve and Irene have kidnapped Diana from the hospital. Diana can be saved in the club just in time from being poisoned by Irene. Steve admits that the club is just a facade, but that it is actually about cheating customers out of their money in illegal gambling. The strings for the fraudulent transactions came together at Irene, she also developed the idea for it. The police cannot prevent Irene from shooting Steve, according to his testimony, before they can be disarmed and taken away. When asked to Diana, Police Commander Reilly said she deserved a good beating.

production

Production notes

The film was produced by the Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC).

Film music

publication

The film premiered in the United States on October 9, 1945. He was in Mexico from August 15, 1947 under the title ¿Por qué las mujeres abandonan el hogar? to see. It was not published in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Awards

Ray Evans and Jay Livingston were nominated for an Oscar in 1946 with their film song The Cat and the Canary in the category "Best Film Song" , but had to win Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers and their song It Might as Well Be Spring from the musical film Fair of the Give love beaten.

Walter Greene was also nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Film Music" . He had to give way to George E. Stoll and his music to the comedy film Vacation in Hollywood .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Why Girls Leave Home Fig. Film poster in the IMDb (English).
  2. ↑ Why Girls Leave Home Fig. Film poster in the IMDb (English).
  3. ↑ a b The 18th Academy Awards | 1946 see page oscars.org (English).