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Carolina (1934)

Carolina poster
Directed by
Henry King
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Southern family struggles to reclaim their old status after the Civil War. A young woman from the North helps bring new life and romance to their fading household.

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What happens

Carolina is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Henry King, with a screenplay by Reginald Berkley based on the 1931 play The House of Connelly by Paul Green, and starring Janet Gaynor, Lionel Barrymore, and Robert Young. The supporting cast features Stepin Fetchit and Shirley Temple in a romanticized story about a post-Civil War family in the fading Southern United States, that regaining its former prestige. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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