The First Year (1932)
1h 20m
Running Time
July 30, 1932Release Date
The First Year (1932)
1h 20m
Running Time
July 30, 1932Release Date
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Plot.
Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy Tucker and the more ambitious, flashy, and worldly Dick Loring, who seems closer to Grace in his desire for travel and adventure.
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Cast & Crew.
Janet Gaynor
Grace Livingston
Charles Farrell
Tommy Tucker
Minna Gombell
Mrs. Barstow
Dudley Digges
Dr. Anderson
William K. Howard
Director
George Meeker
Dick Loring
Maude Eburne
Emily Livingston
Frank Craven
Writer
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The First Year is a 1932 American pre-Code film based on a 1920 play of the same name that originally ran on Broadway at the Little Theatre. The play was written by Frank Craven and produced by John Golden. It closed in 1922 after 760 performances.In 1932, a film adapted from the Craven play was written by Lynn Starling. The film starred Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, and was directed by William K. Howard.
Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927).