Anna Christie

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prostitute based on play or musical sailor pre-code

Anna Christie

Release Date: February 21, 1930

Year	:	1930
Slogan	:	«»
Genres	:	Drama, Romance
Production Companies	:	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Director	:	Clarence Brown
Producers	:	Irving Thalberg
Writers	:	Frances Marion, Eugene O'Neill
RunTime	:	89 mins.

Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in Minnesota. He has not seen her since, but believes her to be a decent and respectably employed young woman. When Anna arrives, however, it is clear that she has lived a hard life in the dregs of society, and that much of spirit has been extinguished. She falls in love with a young sailor rescued at sea by her father, but dreads to reveal to him the truth of her past. Both father and young man are deluded about her background, yet Anna cannot quite bring herself to allow them to remain deluded.