Bad Girl

Bad Girl is a 1931 film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Edwin J. Burke, from the novel and play by Viña Delmar, and directed by Frank Borzage. The movie stars Sally Eilers, James Dunn and Minna Gombell, and details, in realistic fashion, the day-to-day lives and loves of ordinary people going about their ordinary lives. Borzage won the Academy Award for Directing and Burke won for Best Writing, Adaptation.

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  • 1931

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  • 1 h 30 min

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Frank Borzage

Frank Borzage (April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor famed for his mystical romanticism. Borzage's father, Luigi, was born in Roncone, Austria-Hungary in 1859. As a stone mason, he sometimes worked in Switzerland; he met his future wife, Maria...

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