The Vanishing Virginian
The Vanishing Virginian is a 1942 film based on the novel by Rebecca Yancey Williams and set in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1913.
This film, based on a 1931 memoir by Rebecca Yancey Williams, explores society roles in plantations of the Old Dominion around Lynchburg and their socioeconomic implications, as well as the movement for womens suffrage, among other things. It is also the towns story, and various eminent Virginians cross the pages, including Carter Glass, General Jubal Early, Lady Astors father, Chilly Langhorne, and others.Katharine Alexander portrays an outspoken woman who moved North and got a divorce, and the TCM website indicates that shes loosely based on Nancy Langhorne Astor. 2According to MGM records the film earned 589,000 in the US and Canada and 316,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of 63,000. ........
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