Ramona

Overview

First filmed in 1910, the venerable Helen Hunt Jackson novel Ramona was remade in 1936 in full Technicolor (20th Century-Fox's first such production). Loretta Young plays Ramona, a half-Indian girl raised by a white family in Spanish California. She falls in love with the young man of the household (Kent Taylor), but her joy turns to sorrow when the matriarch of the household expresses disgust at "race-mixing." Ramona turns instead to the family's Native American servant (Don Ameche), a relationship that proves fatal for him. Ramona is rare for a 1930s film in that it depicts its racist characters as being totally in the wrong, rather than treating them compassionately so as not to offend the bigots in the audience.

Product Details

Release Date:	07/30/2013
UPC:	0024543878438
Original Release:	1936
Rating:	NR
Source:	FOX MOD
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:24:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Loretta Young	Ramona
Don Ameche	Alessandro
Kent Taylor	Felipe Moreno
Pauline Frederick	Señora Moreno
Jane Darwell	Aunt Ri Hyar
Katherine DeMille	Margarita
Victor Kilian	Father Gaspare
John Carradine	Jim Farrar
Pedro de Cordoba	Father Salvierderra
J. Carrol Naish	Juan Can
Charles Middleton	Actor,American Settler
Charles Waldron	Dr. Weaver
Claire DuBrey	Marda
Russell Simpson	Scroggs
Billy Benedict	Joe Hyar
Chief Thundercloud	Pablo
Tom London	American Settler
Ruth Robinson	Patient in Doctor's Office
Cecil Weston	Pablo's Wife
Robert Spindola	Paquito

Technical Credits

Helen Hunt Jackson

Lamar Trotti

Stuart Anthony

Henry King	Director
Sol M. Wurtzel	Producer
Helen Hunt Jackson	Screenwriter
Lamar Trotti	Screenwriter
Stuart Anthony	Screenwriter