Directed by:
Henry KingScreenplay:
Lamar TrottiCinematography:
William V. SkallComposer:
Alfred NewmanCast:
Loretta Young, Don Ameche, Kent Taylor, Pauline Frederick, Jane Darwell, Katherine DeMille, John Carradine, J. Carrol Naish, Pedro de Cordoba (more)Plots(1)
First filmed in 1910, the venerable Helen Hunt Jackson novel Ramona was remade in 1936 in full Technicolor (20th Century-Fox's first such production). Loretta Young plays Ramona, a half-Indian girl raised by a white family in Spanish California. She falls in love with the young man of the household (Kent Taylor), but her joy turns to sorrow when the matriarch of the household expresses disgust at "race-mixing." Ramona turns instead to the family's Native American servant (Don Ameche), a relationship that proves fatal for him. Ramona is rare for a 1930s film in that it depicts its racist characters as being totally in the wrong, rather than treating them compassionately so as not to offend the bigots in the audience. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Loretta Young
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
The Stranger (1946)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Don Ameche
USA
Best movies:
Love Is News (1937)
Trading Places (1983)
Midnight (1939)
Kent Taylor
USA
Best movies:
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
One Hour with You (1932)
The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Jane Darwell
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Love Is News (1937)
Caged (1950)
Katherine DeMille
Canada
Best movies:
The Call of the Wild (1935)
The Crusades (1935)
Unconquered (1947)
John Carradine
USA
Best movies:
The Invisible Man (1933)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
J. Carrol Naish
USA
Best movies:
Captain Blood (1935)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
Pedro de Cordoba
USA
Best movies:
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Russell Simpson
USA
Best movies:
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The Power and the Glory (1933)
Dodge City (1939)
William 'Billy' Benedict
USA
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The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Killing (1956)
Chief Thundercloud
USA
Best movies:
Union Pacific (1939)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
The Plainsman (1936)
Howard Davies
UK
Best movies:
You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
The Verdict (1946)
Tom London
USA
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Our Hospitality (1923)
Freaks (1932)
Charles Middleton
USA
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
The Good Earth (1937)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Ethan Laidlaw
USA
Best movies:
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Pressure Point (1962)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Donald Reed
Mexico
Best movies:
Midnight (1939)
The Devil Is a Woman (1935)
Miguel Fernández Mila
Best movies:
Another Thin Man (1939)
Gertrude Pedlar
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Forbidden (1932)