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Probation

6.3 67 mins Drama   1932
Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation  
Director(s): Richard Thorpe

Release Date: 15 Tue, Mar 1932

Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, seventeen-year-old Ruth Jarrett. When Ruth's neighbor and landlady, Mrs. Humphries, overhears her talking to Allen on the phone, she becomes morally outraged and calls the police. Ruth is taken away to juvenile hall, and when Ruth's older brother Nick comes home to celebrate Ruth's birthday, Mrs. Humphries explains that Ruth has been seeing an older, wealthy man who has been leading her astray, and that she sent her away for her own good. Nick is saddened that he has failed to keep Ruth on the right track, and when he returns to his apartment, he becomes enraged to see Allen there. When Allen claims ignorance of Ruth's age, Nick hits him, and they engage in a brawl.

Casts of Probation

Sally Blane

as Janet Holman

John Darrow

as Nick Jarrett

J. Farrell MacDonald

as George Holman

Clara Kimball Young

as Mrs. Humphries

Eddie Phillips

as Allen Wells

David Rollins

as Alec

Matty Kemp

as Bert

David Durand

as David

Betty Grable

as Ruth Jarrett

Kenne Duncan

as Wedding Rehearsal Attendant (uncredited)

Mary Jane Irving

as Gwen (uncredited)

Dorothy Vernon

as Mrs. Meyers

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