The Corn Is Green (1945 film)

The Corn Is Green is a 1945 drama film starring Bette Davis as a schoolteacher determined to bring education to a Welsh coal mining town, despite great opposition. It was adapted from the play of the same name by Emlyn Williams starring Ethel Barrymore.

However, Bessie Watty Joan Lorring, a young woman who has recently given birth to Morgans child, blackmails the faculty into giving her part of Morgans scholarship money in order to help raise the baby. The scheming young woman has designs on another male suitor. Instead, Moffatt agrees to adopt the child so that Morgans academic future will not be ruined and Watty will be free to marry another man, unfettered by her responsibility to the child since she and her affianced never really cared for it in the first place. Morgan quickly hears about Wattys scandalous, selfserving motives, and insists upon raising the child himself. Through a heartfelt and persuasive conversation, Moffatt convinces the young man to continue his higher education and contribute something to the world.

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