I have to say, this movie packed quite a punch for its limited scope and setting.
The entire movie takes place in a hospital and largely in a maternity ward. Before pregnant women could have a room by themselves or with one other person, they shared a large room with numerous other prospective mothers.
In "Life Begins" several women were featured. The only commonality between them all was that they had given birth or were to give birth, besides that they were as different as can be; as were their pregnancies.
The main characters were Grace Sutton (Loretta Young), a prisoner, Florette (Glenda Farrell), a woman pregnant with twins who didn't want them, Miss Bowers (Aline MacMahon), the head nurse, Jed Sutton (Eric Linden), Grace's husband, and Ringer Banks (Frank McHugh), another husband.
They tried to pack as many different scenarios as they could in this picture: a woman who died in childbirth, a woman whose child died, a woman with twins, an unmarried woman, a first time child bearer, a veteran child bearer, and everything in between. To my surprise the movie was pretty good. The individual stories were all compelling in their own way. I'm just glad they don't do maternity wards like they used to.
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The entire movie takes place in a hospital and largely in a maternity ward. Before pregnant women could have a room by themselves or with one other person, they shared a large room with numerous other prospective mothers.
In "Life Begins" several women were featured. The only commonality between them all was that they had given birth or were to give birth, besides that they were as different as can be; as were their pregnancies.
The main characters were Grace Sutton (Loretta Young), a prisoner, Florette (Glenda Farrell), a woman pregnant with twins who didn't want them, Miss Bowers (Aline MacMahon), the head nurse, Jed Sutton (Eric Linden), Grace's husband, and Ringer Banks (Frank McHugh), another husband.
They tried to pack as many different scenarios as they could in this picture: a woman who died in childbirth, a woman whose child died, a woman with twins, an unmarried woman, a first time child bearer, a veteran child bearer, and everything in between. To my surprise the movie was pretty good. The individual stories were all compelling in their own way. I'm just glad they don't do maternity wards like they used to.
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