Too Young To Love [DVD] with Frail Women

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Muriel Box writes and directs this British drama. While appearing in juvenile court, 15-year-old Elizabeth Collins (Pauline Hahn) recounts the story that led to her being arrested for teenage prostitution. Living with her mother (Joan Miller) in New York while her father (Austin Willis) works in California, the neglected teenager embarks upon an affair with a sailor and later gets an abortion. Will the judge (Thomas Mitchell) be sympathetic enough to let her try to redeem her life? Frail Women: Maurice Elvey directed this 1931 Twickenham production produced by the prolific Julius Hagen, stars: Mary Newcomb, Owen Nares, Edmund Gwenn. Lillian (Mary Newcomb) has an illegitimate war baby. The father, a soldier unaware of the situation goes off to war. Years later the soldier now a Colonel learns of his child and offers to marry Lillian to give his daughter a name and avoid the social stigma s of that time.