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title: 'Blossoms in the Dust (1941)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Mervyn LeRoy'
released: '1941-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 99
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/blossoms-in-the-dust-1941'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033407/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

1941 · 99 min · Drama, History, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

Blossoms in the Dust is a 1941 American biographical drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt, Fay Holden and Samuel S. Hinds. It tells the story of Edna Gladney, who helped orphaned children find homes and began a campaign to remove the word "illegitimate" from Texas birth certificates, despite the opposition of "good" citizens. The screenplay was by Anita Loos, with a story by Ralph Wheelwright. Some of the important aspects of her life fictionalized in the film are the fact that it was Edna herself who was born out of wedlock; she and Sam eloped on the eve of her marriage to someone else, and they had much more time together before his death than given them in the film.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Mervyn LeRoy](https://cinepixo.com/people/mervyn-leroy)
- **Screenplay:** [Anita Loos](https://cinepixo.com/people/anita-loos)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Herbert Stothart](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-stothart)
- **Producer:** [Irving Asher](https://cinepixo.com/people/irving-asher)
- **Director of Photography:** [Karl Freund](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-freund), [W. Howard Greene](https://cinepixo.com/people/w-howard-greene)
- **Editor:** [George Boemler](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-boemler)

## Cast

- [Greer Garson](https://cinepixo.com/people/greer-garson)
- [Frank Faylen](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-faylen)
- [Will Wright](https://cinepixo.com/people/will-wright)
- [Edward Hearn](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-hearn)
- [Sam Ash](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-ash)
- [George Lessey](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-lessey)
- [Fay Holden](https://cinepixo.com/people/fay-holden)
- [Henry O'Neill](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-o-neill)
- [Emmett Vogan](https://cinepixo.com/people/emmett-vogan)
- [Emory Parnell](https://cinepixo.com/people/emory-parnell)
- [Joseph Crehan](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-crehan)
- [John Eldredge](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-eldredge)
- [Edward Fielding](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-fielding)
- [Ethel Wales](https://cinepixo.com/people/ethel-wales)
- [Purnell Pratt](https://cinepixo.com/people/purnell-pratt)

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