Why Girls Leave Home (1945)
- Directed by
- William Berke
- Genre
- drama film, crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 09m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 6 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young woman leaves her overprotective family to pursue a singing career. She gets involved with shady nightclub characters and a dangerous criminal.
datedmelodramaticsentimentalbriskmoralisticgritty-litewholesome-dangerous
What happens
Why Girls Leave Home is a 1945 American drama film directed by William Berke, written by Fanya Foss and Bradford Ropes, and starring Lola Lane, Sheldon Leonard, and Pamela Blake. The film's composer, Walter Greene, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1945. Also, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans were nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Cat and the Canary". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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