THE PURCHASE PRICE.
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✎ Suggest a correctionJoan Gordon, a New York torch singer who has been performing since age 15, has left her wealthy criminal boyfriend, Eddie Fields, for upstanding citizen Don Leslie. She and Don Leslie break off their engagement, and she decides to leave town rather than return to Eddie. She trades places with her hotel's maid, Emily, who had used Joan's picture when corresponding with a North Dakota farmer in search of a mail-order bride. Joan sets out to become the wife of Jim Gilson, with only a vague idea of all the hardships of farm life during the Great Depression.
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THE PURCHASE PRICE. 1932. 68 min., sd. Based on the story "The Mudlark" by Arthur Stringer. Credits: Director, William A. Wellman; screenplay, Robert Lord. Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 28Jul32; LP3175.
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