"THE AWARD STORY from The Ladies' Home Journal has become the most unusual picture of the year." 17 April 1953 Drama, Music 68 mins
Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.
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Dorothy Dandridge as Jane Richards
Philip Hepburn as C.T. Young
Harry Belafonte as Mr. Williams - School Principal
Barbara Randolph as Tanya Hamilton
Robert Horton as Dr. Mitchell
Maidie Norman as Mrs. Hamilton - Tanya's Mother
Rene Beard as Booker T. Jones
Howard Louis McNeely as Boyd
Robert McNeeley as Lloyd
Patti Marie Ellis as Rachel Smith
Fred Moultrie as Roger
James Moultrie as George
Sol Baer Fielding Producer
Gerald Mayer Director
Cedric Gibbons Art Direction
David Rose Music
Eddie Imazu Art Direction
Alfred Gilks Director of Photography
Joseph Dervin Editor
Jacques Mapes Set Decoration
A. Arnold Gillespie Special Effects
Emmet Lavery Writer
William Tuttle Makeup Artist
Edwin B. Willis Set Decoration
Sydney Guilaroff Hairstylist
Mary Elizabeth Vroman Original Story
Emmet Lavery Screenplay
United States 17 April 1953
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