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The Housekeeper's Daughter (1939)

The Housekeeper's Daughter poster
Directed by
Hal Roach
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rated
NR
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 5 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mobster's daughter gets mixed up with a newspaper reporter and a murder case. The story follows her attempts to navigate danger and romance.

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What happens

The Housekeeper's Daughter is a 1939 comedy/drama film directed and produced by Hal Roach. The film stars Joan Bennett, Adolphe Menjou and John Hubbard. The screenplay was written by Rian James, Gordon Douglas, Jack Jevne and Claude Martin, based on a novel by Donald Henderson Clarke. It was the film debut of Victor Mature. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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