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His Woman (1931)

His Woman poster
Directed by
Edward Sloman, Melville Baker
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 16m
Rated
NR
Rating
4.3 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A rough sea captain finds a baby on his ship during a voyage. He hires a woman pretending to be a missionary's daughter to take care of the infant.

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What happens

His Woman is a 1931 American pre-Code romance drama film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert. Based on the novel The Sentimentalists by Dale Collins, the story is about a tough sea captain who discovers a baby aboard his freighter and hires a tramp, masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for the infant on their passage to New York. It is a remake of the 1928 film Sal of Singapore. The 1931 film was a modest commercial success at the time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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