
That Brennan Girl
That Brennan Girl, also known as Tough Girl, is a 1946 American melodrama film produced and directed by Alfred Santell and starring James Dunn, Mona Freeman, William Marshall, and June Duprez. The story concerns a young woman raised in an unwholesome environment who joins a confidence racket run by one of her mother's friends. She agrees to marry the victim of one of her scams, becomes a war widow, and is left to raise a baby, but abandons it each evening to go out dancing. After the child suffers an accident in her absence, she is charged with child neglect and loses custody. She mends her ways by devotedly caring for an abandoned infant and meets up again with the con man, who has also reformed after a prison stint, and together they build a new life. The film was the last work of director Santell and the last leading role for actor Dunn.
Plot
On Mother's Day 1946, a woman known as Ziggy Brennan looks back on her life.
Cast
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author | Doris Anderson |
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director | Alfred Santell |
editor | Arthur Roberts |
genre | drama |
keywords | abandon baby child neglect con artist guilty conscience killed in action mother's day reform second chance |
musicBy | George Antheil |
producer | Alfred Santell |
productionCompany | Republic Pictures |
publisher | Republic Pictures |
theme | dance melodrama |