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Career is a film of genre Drama directed by Leigh Jason released in USA on 7 july 1939 with Anne Shirley
Career (1939)
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Add to a movie listCareer is a 1939 drama film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Anne Shirley and Edward Ellis. The film was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and centers on a rivalry between two men who are in love with the same girl.
Actors
Anne Shirley
(Sylvia Bartholomew)
Edward Ellis
(Stephen Cruthers)
Charles Drake
(Rex Chaney)
Samuel S. Hinds
(Clem Bartholomew)
Janet Beecher
(Amy Cruthers)
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