School for Girls

1934 film directed by William Nigh

Reginald Wright Kauffman
Albert DeMond

Produced byM.H. HoffmanStarring

Sidney Fox
Paul Kelly
Lois Wilson

CinematographyHarry NeumannEdited byMildred JohnstonMusic byAbe Meyer

Production
company

Liberty Pictures

Distributed byLiberty Pictures

Release date

February 19, 1935 (1935-02-19)^[1]

Running time

73 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

School for Girls is a 1935 American drama film directed by William Nigh and starring Sidney Fox, Paul Kelly and Lois Wilson.^[1]^[2]

Plot

After being convicted of stealing, a young woman is sent to a reformatory administered by a sadistic and corrupt woman. However, one of the board of trustees takes an interest in the new arrival and begins to investigate the management of the institution.

Cast

Sidney Fox as Annette Edlridge
Paul Kelly as Garry Waltham
Lois Wilson as Miss Cartwright
Lucille La Verne as Miss Keeble
Dorothy Lee as Dorothy Bosworth
Toby Wing as Hazel Jones
Dorothy Appleby as Florence Burns
Lona Andre as Peggy
Russell Hopton as Elliott Robbins, aka Buck Kreegar
Barbara Weeks as Nell Davis
Kathleen Burke as Gladys Deacon
Anna Q. Nilsson as Dr. Anne Galvin
Purnell Pratt as Inspector Jameson
Robert Warwick as Governor
William Farnum as Charles Waltham
Charles Ray as Duke
Mary Foy as Miss Gage
Anne Shirley as Catherine Fogarty
Myrtle Stedman as Mrs. Winters
Eddie Kane as Ted
Gretta Gould as Mrs. Smoot
George Cleveland as Reeves
Helene Chadwick as Larson
Helen Foster as Eleanor
Fred Kelsey as Detective
Edward LeSaint as Judge
Harry Woods as Detective
Jack Kennedy as Hansen

References

^ ^a ^b “School for Girls 1935)”, production and release details, the American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles, California. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
^ “School for Girls”, original print information, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Turner Broadcasting System, a subsidiary of Time Warner, Inc., New York, N.Y. Retrieved September 29, 2018.

Bibliography

Pitts, Michael R. Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each. McFarland & Company, 2005.