The Shopworn Angel
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| Directed by | H.C. Potter |
| Produced by | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
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| Based on | "Private Pettigrew's Girl" 1918 short story by Dana Burnet |
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| Music by | Edward Ward |
| Cinematography | Joseph Ruttenberg |
| Edited by | W. Donn Hayes |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $531,000 |
| Box office | $1,042,000 |
The Shopworn Angel is a 1938 American drama film directed by H. C. Potter and starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Walter Pidgeon. The MGM release featured the second screen pairing of Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart following their successful teaming in the Universal Pictures production Next Time We Love two years earlier.
The screenplay by Waldo Salt is the third feature film adaptation of a Dana Burnet short story, "Private Pettigrew's Girl", originally published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1918. The first version was Pettigrew's Girl, a silent film released in 1919, and the second was The Shopworn Angel (1928), a part-talkie released by Paramount Pictures starring Nancy Carroll, Gary Cooper, and Paul Lukas.
After the United States enters World War I in 1917, the limousine carrying Daisy Heath (Margaret Sullavan), a sophisticated Broadway musical theatre star, knocks down Bill Pettigrew (James Stewart), a naive young soldier from Texas. A policeman orders the chauffeur to take Bill back to camp. During the ride, he becomes slightly acquainted with the cynical, but not cold-hearted Daisy.
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