Grand Old Girl
"When jazz and gin menaced her boys and girls, she raided the hot spots single-handed!"
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
"When jazz and gin menaced her boys and girls, she raided the hot spots single-handed!"
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
May Robson
Laura Bayles
Fred MacMurray
Sandy
Mary Carlisle
Gerry Killaine
Alan Hale
Click Dade
Etienne Girardot
Mellis
Ben Alexander
Tom Miller
William Burress
Butts
Hale Hamilton
Killaine
Edward Van Sloan
Holland
An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den.
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