
Penny Serenade(1941)
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.


“Sometimes there's a terrible penalty for telling the truth.”
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.

Bette Davis
Maggie Patterson Van Allen

Mary Astor
Sandra Kovak

George Brent
Peter 'Pete' Van Allen

Lucile Watson
Aunt Ada Greenfield

Hattie McDaniel
Violet

Grant Mitchell
Joshua Mason

Jerome Cowan
Jock Thompson

Charles Trowbridge
Senator Ted Greenfield

Thurston Hall
Oscar Worthington James

Russell Hicks
Colonel Harriston
The Great Lie is a drama film released in 1941 exploring themes of baby, married couple, pregnancy, seclusion, adoptive mother, missing person. Directed by Edmund Goulding, it stars Bette Davis, Mary Astor, George Brent. After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
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