Delinquent Parents 1938 | FULL MOVIE | Drama, Crime | Doris Weston, Maurice Murphy, Terry Walker

Delinquent Parents is a 1938 American crime film directed by Nick Grinde and written by Nicholas T. Barrows and Robert St. Claire. The film stars Doris Weston, Maurice Murphy, Helen MacKellar, Terry Walker, Richard Tucker and Charlotte Treadway. The film was released on July 15, 1938, by Progressive Pictures.

SYNOPSIS
A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.

In the closing days of the Great War, Edith Ellis secretly marries Charles Wharton Jr., a young army lieutenant from an influential family. The Armistice of 11 November 1918 occurs just prior to her husband's sailing to France, his influential family successfully seeks to have their weakling son's marriage annulled. Edith is injured in an automobile accident with Edith and her family keeping her pregnancy secret, putting her child up for adoption.

Edith's daughter is adopted and raised as Carol Caldwell, but in a fit of rage her adoption is revealed to her circle of friends by her former friend. Shamed by not knowing she was adopted, Carol cruelly turns her back on her adopted parents and works as a nightclub singer where she attracts a young crowd to the establishment. Carol's adopted parents turn to their friend Edith Ellis, now an unmarried Judge who doesn't know that Carol is really her daughter.

CAST & CREW
Doris Weston as Carol Wharton Caldwell
Maurice Murphy as Bruce Jefferson
Helen MacKellar as Judge Edith Ellis
Terry Walker as Cousin Betty
Richard Tucker as Harry Jefferson
Charlotte Treadway as Mrs. Harry Jefferson
Morgan Wallace as Charles Wharton
Marjorie Reynolds as Edythe Ellis
Theodore von Eltz as Carson
Walter Young as Joseph Caldwell
Sibyl Harris as Katherine Caldwell
Carlyle Moore Jr. as Charles Wharton Jr.
Janet Young as Mrs. Mihom
Byron Foulger as Herbert Ellis
Virginia Brissac as Mrs. Herbert Ellis
Harry Hayden as Mayor Wharton
Betty Blythe as Mrs. Wharton
Marge Champion as Dancer

Directed by Nick Grinde
Screenplay by Nicholas T. Barrows, Robert St. Claire
Produced by Ben Judell
Cinematography M. A. Anderson
Edited by S. Roy Luby
Production company Progressive Pictures
Distributed by Progressive Pictures
Release date July 15, 1938
Running time 62 minutes
Country United States
Language English