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Lady for a Day

Takes its place among the greatest pictures ever made!

7.1(99)19331h 36m3

Apple Annie is an aging New York City fruit seller whose daughter Louise has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant. As she grows up, Louise is led to believe that her mother is a society matron called Mrs. E. Worthington Manville. Annie worries that her lie is in danger of being uncovered when she learns that Louise is sailing to New York with her new fiancé and his nobleman father.

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Status
Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • judge
  • parent child relationship
  • superstition
  • transformation
  • letter
  • count
  • deception
  • makeover
  • old lady
  • pre-code
  • nightclub singer
  • pool shark

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Behind the camera

Director

Frank Capra

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNRNew York City, New York7 Sept 1933
    • Theatrical13 Sept 1933

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Lady for a Day was released on 13 September 1933.

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    CinemaSerf

    6/13/2022

    7/10

    This has shades of "My Fair Lady" about it - and Frank Capra has done quite well with a cast of lesser known actors to create quite an enjoyable comedy drama. May Robson steals the show as "Apple Annie", a lady who makes her living selling these fruit on Times Square. She is well known and well liked by her pals and all is going along nicely until her daughter writes to announce that she will be arriving from Spain w…

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