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"LIKE A FLASH OF SUNLIGHT She bursts into sleepy Carolina...upsetting traditions...injecting life where there was laziness...love where there were fear and hate!"
During Civil War Reconstruction, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate, despite the objects of his temperamental father Bob Connelly.
11 Cast Members
Janet Gaynor
Joanna Tate
Lionel Barrymore
Bob Connelly
Robert Young
Will Connelly
Henrietta Crosman
Mrs. Ellen Connelly
Richard Cromwell
Allan
Mona Barrie
Virginia Buchanan
Shirley Temple
Joan Connelly (uncredited)
Stepin Fetchit
Scipio
Russell Simpson
Richards
John Elliott
Gen. Robert E. Lee
J.C. Fowler
Gen. Leonidas Polk
