The Girl of the Limberlost (1945)
1h
Running Time
October 11, 1945Release Date
The Girl of the Limberlost (1945)
1h
Running Time
October 11, 1945Release Date
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Plot.
Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock, hates her as she blames the girl for the father's death as he drowned in a quagmire on the way home the night the girl was born. The years-late revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings an attitude adjustment to the mother.
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Cast & Crew.
Ruth Nelson
Kate Comstock
Dorinda Clifton
Elnora Comstock
Loren Tindall
Pete Reed
Gloria Holden
Miss Nelson
Ernest Cossart
Roger Henley
Vanessa Brown
Helen Brownlee
James Bell
Wesley Sinton
Joyce Arling
Margaret Sinton
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This Movie Is About.
based on novel or book
Wiki.
The Girl of the Limberlost is a 1945 American drama film starring Ruth Nelson, Dorinda Clifton, and Loren Tindall, and directed by Mel Ferrer. The film is based on a 1909 novel by Gene Stratton-Porter, which was previously filmed in 1909 as "A Girl of the Limeberlost".
The movie is set in Indiana's famous Limberlost Swamp, which was clear-cut, drained and turned into farmland in the early 20th century, despite efforts by Stratton-Porter and others to save it. A small part of the original swamp has been restored since the 1990s and is now a nature preserve.