The Gorgeous Hussy is a 1936 motion picture directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor. The film's plot tells a fictional account of President of the United States Andrew Jackson and an innkeeper's daughter. The screenplay was written by Stephen Morehouse Avery and Ainsworth Morgan, which was based on a novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams.
In 1823 Washington, Major O'Neal and his daughter Margaret "Peggy" O'Neal run an inn...
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The Gorgeous Hussy is a 1936 motion picture directed by Clarence Brown, and starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor. The film's plot tells a fictional account of President of the United States Andrew Jackson and an innkeeper's daughter. The screenplay was written by Stephen Morehouse Avery and Ainsworth Morgan, which was based on a novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams.
In 1823 Washington, Major O'Neal and his daughter Margaret "Peggy" O'Neal run an inn that is frequented by politicians. Peggy's outspoken and astute opinions have earned the admiration of men such as Andrew Jackson and Daniel Webster. Virginia senator John Randolph, with whom Peggy is secretly in love, seems only to regard her as a child. When new inn resident "Bow" Timberlake refers to Peggy as a "tavern girl," however, John slaps him. Bow soon falls in love with Peggy himself and proposes, but she refuses, then goes to John's room one night to confess her love for him. He sends her away, thinking that she is too young and...
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