Life Goes On (1938)
- Directed by
- William Nolte
- Genre
- crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A family deals with the fallout of a crime and the pressure to keep their lives on track. The story follows their struggles within a segregated community.
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What happens
Life Goes On (reissued in 1944 as His Harlem Wife) is a 1938 crime drama directed by William Nolte and starring Louise Beavers, Edward Thompson, Reginald Fenderson, and Laurence Criner. It was produced by Million Dollar Productions, which created race films with African-American casts for distribution to "colored only" theaters during the years of segregation. The Library of Congress has a movie poster promoting Life Goes On that features inset images of Laurence Criner and Louise Beavers. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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