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The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)

Name: The Gorgeous Hussy
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1h 40min

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It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal - Peggy (Joan Crawford) to most that know her - is the daughter of Major William O'Neal (Gene Lockhart), who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
Because of her personal situation at the time, she, in 1828, becomes the unofficial first lady to help her old friend - 'old' both in terms of age and length of time - Andrew Jackson (Lionel Barrymore), who has just been elected President of the United States. Jackson and Peggy have the same political outlook, where the union of the states is paramount, especially when many states see their rights as being more important than the union. Jackson had a rough ride during the election in large part because his wife, Rachel Jackson (Beulah Bondi), was seen as a pipe smoking hayseed, unfit to live in the White House. On her deathbed, Rachel asked Peggy to take care of Jackson. Peggy, as unofficial first lady, gets as rough a ride as Rachel did, because of her own marital status and the undue influence she may assert over Jackson. Because of her relationship with Jackson, Peggy has to decide which of the conflicting issues of her political convictions, being with the man she truly loves or respectability is of greatest priority in her life.
Actors:: Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone, Melvyn Douglas, James Stewart, Alison Skipworth, Beulah Bondi, Louis Calhern, Melville Cooper, Sidney Toler, Gene Lockhart, Clara Blandick, Frank Conroy, Nydia Westman, Willard Robertson, Charles Trowbridge, Rubye De Remer, Betty Blythe, Zeffie Tilbury
Directors:: Clarence Brown
Producers:: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writers:: Ainsworth Morgan, Stephen Morehouse Avery
Others:: George Folsey
Genres:: Classics, Drama
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