A Child Is Born | |
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Directed by | Lloyd Bacon |
Screenplay by | Robert Rossen |
Based on | Life Begins 1932 play by Mary McDougal Axelson |
Produced by | Samuel Bischoff |
Starring | Geraldine Fitzgerald Jeffrey Lynn Gladys George Gale Page Spring Byington Johnnie Davis |
Cinematography | Charles Rosher |
Edited by | Jack Killifer |
Music by | Heinz Roemheld |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 79 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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Film about several mothers at hospital maternity ward. The nurses care for the mothers and their new born babies. The relationship that are formed with the mothers to be and the expectant fathers.
Numerous regional censor boards heavily edited or banned the film because they believed its discussions of childbirth would frighten women from pursuing motherhood. British Columbia rejected the film because "The showing of this picture would have the effect of creating a fear in the minds of expectant mothers." [3]
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