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Rockabye is a american film of genre Drama directed by George Cukor released in USA on 25 november 1932 with Constance Bennett
Rockabye (1932)
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Add to a movie listRockabye is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Jane Murfin is based on a play by Lucia Bronder.
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When stage actress Judy Carroll testifies on behalf of her former lover, accused embezzler Al Howard, she loses custody of Elizabeth, an orphan she had planned to adopt. Her devoted manager Antonie "Tony" de Sola urges her to travel to Europe with her alcoholic mother Snooks to alleviate her emotional pain. While there she reads a play entitled Rockabye, which eerily resembles recent events in her life. Despite Tony's qualms, she is determined to star in a Broadway production.Actors
Constance Bennett
(Judy Carroll)
Joel McCrea
(Jacobs 'Jake' Van Riker Pell)
Paul Lukas
(Antonie 'Tony' de Sola)
Walter Pidgeon
(Al Howard)
Jobyna Howland
('Snooks' Carroll)
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