Should a Girl Marry?
About Should a Girl Marry?
Betty Gilbert (Mayo Methot) finishes an eighteen-month prison term. A dying inmate, Mary Winters, gives her clippings about a daughter, Margaret Wilson, born in prison, and asks that Margaret never be told. Betty's husband Harry (Weldon Heyburn), the con man whose schemes sent her away, finds the clippings and moves them to Edgemont, where Margaret (Anne Nagel) is about to marry Dr. Robert Benson (Warren Hull). Harry blackmails the Wilsons with the birth. When a wounded man is near death, Robert at first refuses a risky operation, then operates so Betty will not be charged with murder, and saves him. The police arrest Betty. The patient will not press charges.
Cast & crew
More about Should a Girl Marry?
Lambert Hillyer directed. David Silverstein and Gaye Newberry wrote it. Monogram released it on 8 June 1939. The AFI catalog dates the release 10 June 1939. Aileen Pringle and Lester Matthews are also billed. The running time on release lists is 61 minutes.
Themes
Background
A Monogram programmer of 1939, built on a prison birth, a blackmail, and a hospital promotion.
Notes
- Anne Nagel plays Margaret, the daughter born in prison, not the ex-convict. Mayo Methot plays Betty.
- Warren Hull plays the surgeon Robert Benson. Weldon Heyburn plays the blackmailer Harry Gilbert.
- AFI files it as a crime drama about women prisoners and a hospital staff fight.
- Lester Matthews plays a rival surgeon who protects his record by refusing risky cases.
Scenes
- Mary Winters, dying, hands Betty the clippings and the promise.
- Harry threatens to sell Margaret's birth to the newspapers.
- Robert operates on the wounded man so Betty will not face a murder charge.
