A Free Soul
She wasn't a divorcee but she believed that strangers could kiss!
Directed by Clarence Brown
Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
A pre-Code melodrama about moral hypocrisy and forbidden desire, where a dissolute father's objections to his daughter's romance with a gangster expose the contradictions in his own ethics.
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
Essence
Ensemble
Norma Shearer
Jan Ashe
Leslie Howard
Dwight Winthrop
Lionel Barrymore
Stephen Ashe
Clark Gable
Ace Wilfong
James Gleason
Eddie
Lucy Beaumont
Grandma Ashe
Roscoe Ates
Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
Ann Brody
Hamburger Saleslady (uncredited)
Edward Brophy
Slouch (uncredited)
James Donlan
Reporter (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Birthday Party Guest (uncredited)
Francis Ford
Skid Row Drunk (uncredited)
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