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Blue Denim

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Original title

Blue Denim

Year

1959

Running time

89 min.

Country

United States

Director

Philip Dunne

Screenwriter

Philip Dunne, Edith Sommer. Play: James Leo Herlihy, William Noble

Cast

Music

Bernard Herrmann

Cinematography

Leo Tover (B&W)

Producer

20th Century Fox

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

Arthur Bartley and Janet Willard are fairly typical 1950s teenagers. Their lives are turned upside down however when Janet becomes pregnant. Desperate to tell his parents of the predicament they find themselves in, Arthur finds that he cannot do so. He arranges for Janet to have an abortion, but the internal turmoil this causes him finally forces him to tell his father, who races to save the girl from the back room abortionist.

Awards: 1959: Golden Globes: Nominated for Most Promising Newcomer - Female (Lynley)

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Blue Denim

1959

Philip Dunne