Claudelle Inglish

Claudelle Inglish is a 1961 American film directed by Gordon Douglas and based on the 1958 novel by Erskine Caldwell. It stars Diane McBain and Arthur Kennedy. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1962 for Best Costume Design Howard Shoup. The film was cast with many Warner Bros. Television contract stars, including Diane McBain who replaced the original choice for the lead Anne Francis. McBain was then costarring in Surfsideand had previously appeared in Parrish.

At the same time, rich middleaged portly landowner S.T. Crawford Claude Akins, who owns the farm where the Inglish family live, begins to secretly eye up Claudelle. Despite her mothers protests, Linn wins her dads approval by helping him on the farm. Shortly before graduation, Linn takes Claudelle to a neighborhood carnival where he wins her a musical dancing doll. That same night, Linn asks Claudelle to marry him and she happily says yes. Linn gets drafted into the army, and he and Claudelle are spending their last night together before Linns departure at the senior prom. The two leave the dance to go for a walk, where Claudelle tells Linn her fears about him being away in the army for two years and how she is afraid they will never be together again. Linn calms her fears by promising her he will marry her the day he comes home from the service. Claudelle, still fearing Linn leaving her, has him make love to her that night in the woods.Claudelle and Linn exchange letters through that summer, fall and the following winter, with Claudelle looking forward to the day when he will return to marry her. During the winter, Claudelle makes payments on a trousseau for her wedding at Harley Peasley Frank Overton and his wife Ernestines Hope Summers General Store. She stays true to Linn, even politely rejecting the advances of Harleys son Dennis Will Hutchins. ........

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