The Cabin in the Cotton

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The Cabin in the Cotton is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film best known for its depiction of sharecropper life in the rural South and for Bette Davis’s iconic line, “I’d like to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.”

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instanceOf film
basedOn The Cabin in the Cotton (novel) NERFINISHED
basedOnAuthor Harry Harrison Kroll NERFINISHED
blackAndWhite true
cinematographyBy Barney McGill NERFINISHED
country United States of America
surface form: United States
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts sharecropper life
director Michael Curtiz NERFINISHED
distributor First National Pictures NERFINISHED
Warner Bros. Pictures
surface form: Warner Bros.
editedBy George Amy NERFINISHED
filmEra pre-Code Hollywood NERFINISHED
genre drama
hasCharacter Betty Wright NERFINISHED
Madge Norwood NERFINISHED
Marvin Blake NERFINISHED
hasFormat feature film
language English
medium sound film
notablePerformer Bette Davis NERFINISHED
notableQuote I’d like to kiss you, but I just washed my hair.
originalLanguage English
partOf American pre-Code cinema
portraysTheme class conflict
economic exploitation
labor relations
producer Hal B. Wallis NERFINISHED
productionCompany First National Pictures NERFINISHED
releaseDate 1932-09-17
releaseYear 1932
runtimeMinutes 78
screenwriter Paul Green NERFINISHED
setInPeriod Great Depression NERFINISHED
settingRegion rural American South
starring Berton Churchill NERFINISHED
Bette Davis NERFINISHED
David Landau NERFINISHED
Dorothy Jordan NERFINISHED
Hardie Albright NERFINISHED
Henry B. Walthall NERFINISHED
Richard Barthelmess NERFINISHED
yearOfWork 1932

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