Convicted Woman is a 1940 crime film starring Rochelle Hudson and directed by Nick Grinde. It is also known as Dames and Daughters of Today.

Convicted Woman
Directed byNick Grinde
Screenplay byJoseph Carole
Story byMartin Mooney
Alex Gottlieb
Produced byRalph Cohn
StarringRochelle Hudson
Frieda Inescort
June Lang
Lola Lane
Glenn Ford
Iris Meredith
CinematographyBenjamin Kline
Edited byJames Sweeney
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • January 31, 1940 (1940-01-31) (U.S.)
Running time
65 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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Jobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the best efforts of her lawyer and noted social worker Mary Ellis and of a reporter, Jim Brent, is sentenced to a year in the Curtiss House of Correction. Chief Matron Brackett rules with an iron hand with the aid of inmates Frankie Mason, "The Duchess", and Nita Lavore. One of the inmates commits suicide and a subsequent story by Jim on the prison conditions leads to Mary Ellis being made the supervisor of the correction center. Although initially reluctant to trust the new leader, Betty eventually warms to her. When ten girls are allowed to go home for Thanksgiving under the promise of returning by eleven P.M., Frankie and "The Duchess", having lost the power and privilege they enjoyed under the departed Matron Brackett, arrange to have Betty kidnapped so she can not return at the appointed time. Another of the girls telephones Jim and he soon finds Betty a prisoner at a deserted roadhouse. Jim rescues Betty and returns her to the correction center, a little late but, as it turns out, just in time for her to be handed a pardon by Mary Ellis.

Cast

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Actor Role
Rochelle Hudson Betty Andrews
Frieda Inescort Attorney Mary Ellis
June Lang Georgia Mason
Lola Lane Hazel Wren
Glenn Ford Jim Brent (Reporter)
Iris Meredith Nita Lavore
Lorna Gray Frankie Mason
Esther Dale Chief Matron Brackett
William Farnum Commissioner McNeill
Mary Field Gracie Dunn
Beatrice Blinn May Sorenson
June Gittelson Tubby
Dorothy Appleby

Donna Reed

Daisy

convict (uncredited)

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