Straight from the Heart
Cast & Crew
Scott R. Beal
Mary Astor
Roger Pryor
Baby Jane Quigley
Carol Coombe
Andy Devine
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Marian Henshaw gets a job at the day nursery of an orphanage through the influence of crooked political candidate Andy MacLean, unaware of his plan to loot the city treasury at the expense of the orphans if elected mayor. At the orphanage, Marian meets Maggie Haines, a foundling. MacLean induces Marian to help him frame his opponent, the incumbent mayor, by creating a scandal in which the mayor is named the father of Maggie. Marian is supposed to testify before a coroner's inquest that Maggie's mother, who committed suicide, confessed to her on her deathbed that the mayor was Maggie's father. Just before the inquest, however, Marian learns that the mayor is innocent and realizes MacLean's duplicitous nature. At the inquest, Marian double-crosses MacLean by naming him Maggie's father. MacLean sees the error of his ways and, realizing he loves Marian, forfeits his political ambition in order to marry her.
Director
Scott R. Beal
Cast
Mary Astor
Roger Pryor
Baby Jane Quigley
Carol Coombe
Andy Devine
Grant Mitchell
Robert Mcwade
Doris Lloyd
Clara Blandick
Henry Armetta
Douglas Fowley
Willard Robertson
Louise Carter
Hilda Vaughn
Esther Howard
Marion Lord
Donald Haines
George Ernest
Helen Parrish
Timmy Butts
Frank Reicher
William B. Davidson
Yola D'avril
Georgette Rhodes
James Flavin
Howard C. Hickman
Warner Richmond
Jack Mulhall
Franklin Parker
Stanley Price
Phil Tead
Ronnie Cosbey
Joan Standing
Veda Buckland
Bernard Suss
Arthur Howe
Shirley Jean Rickert
Nestor Aber
Samuel T. Godfrey
Velma Gresham
William Norton Bailey
Norma Drew
Tom O'grady
Dorothy Vernon
Beth Hazelton
Louise Lester
Lillian Castel
Kathryn Sheldon
Crew
Doris Anderson
Marion Baldwin
Barbara Boone
Connie Earl
William Ely
John P. Fulton
Ted Kent
Gilbert Kurland
Carl Laemmle
Beth Langston
Charles Stumar
Loretta Toomey
Joe Torillo
Mary West
Harrison Wiley
B. F. Zeidman
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Notes
Motion Picture Herald reports that Scott Beal, formerly an assistant director, made his directorial debut on this production. According to a news item in Daily Variety on November 20, 1934, when Warren Hymer failed to report to the set, he was replaced by Andy Devine. Universal production files in the USC Cinema-Television Library state that Kurt Neumann was originally scheduled to direct this film.
