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"WHAT A TIME FOR LIVING!...AND WHAT A GREAT LOVE STORY THEY LIVED!"

David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's horse-trainer, Ben Lathrop, whose daughter, Cissy, has left high school to help her father. Palmer marries and becomes wealthy through an invention, and is able to indulge his socially-ambitious wife. His father dies and Palmer returns to Indiana, where his interest in harness-racing is rekindled, as is his interest in Cissy Lathrop.

Top Cast

  • Dennis O'Keefe

    Dennis O'Keefe

    David Palmer

  • Gail Russell

    Gail Russell

    Cissy Lathrop

  • Ruth Warrick

    Ruth Warrick

    Ruth Treadwell

  • Charlotte Greenwood

    Charlotte Greenwood

    Aunt Netty

  • Henry Hull

    Henry Hull

    Dan Palmer

  • John Hoyt

    John Hoyt

    Ben Lathrop

  • Arthur Hunnicutt

    Arthur Hunnicutt

    Chet Williams

  • Clarence Muse

    Clarence Muse

    Voodoo

  • Harry Lauter

    Harry Lauter

    Bud Ransome

Overview

David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's horse-trainer, Ben Lathrop, whose daughter, Cissy, has left high school to help her father. Palmer marries and becomes wealthy through an invention, and is able to indulge his socially-ambitious wife. His father dies and Palmer returns to Indiana, where his interest in harness-racing is rekindled, as is his interest in Cissy Lathrop.

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