‘Blossoms in the Dust’: Everyone’s Child

A biographical drama about a woman who gives all children the legitimacy they deserve.
‘Blossoms in the Dust’: Everyone’s Child
Edna Gladney (Greer Garson, C) speaks out in the Texas Legislature. MovieStillsDB
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NR | 1 h 39 min | Drama | 1941

This fictionalized biopic on child-rights activist Edna Gladney was, uniquely for biopics, released while she was alive. For decades, she and her colleagues at the Texas Children’s Home and Aid Society helped babies born out of wedlock find homes and campaigned to remove the word “illegitimate” from birth certificates.

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