A Free Soul

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A Free Soul

film by Brown [1931]

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- Clarence Brown
  The 1930s
  … (1931), Brown made the drama A Free Soul (1931), which starred Lionel Barrymore as an alcoholic attorney who gets a gangster (played by Clark Gable) off the hook for homicide but then finds that his daughter (Norma Shearer) has fallen for the criminal. Brown received an Oscar nomination for the…
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  … (1931), Brown made the drama A Free Soul (1931), which starred Lionel Barrymore as an alcoholic attorney who gets a gangster (played by Clark Gable) off the hook for homicide but then finds that his daughter (Norma Shearer) has fallen for the criminal. Brown received an Oscar nomination for the…
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- Lionel Barrymore
  …an alcoholic defense attorney in A Free Soul (1931) won him an Academy Award as best actor. He appeared with his brother, John, in Grand Hotel (1932) and with both John and their sister, Ethel, in Rasputin and the Empress (1932). Other memorable movies were Captains Courageous (1937),
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  …an alcoholic defense attorney in A Free Soul (1931) won him an Academy Award as best actor. He appeared with his brother, John, in Grand Hotel (1932) and with both John and their sister, Ethel, in Rasputin and the Empress (1932). Other memorable movies were Captains Courageous (1937),
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