28 Sep 1932
A Bill of Divorcement
A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.
Punch and Jody
FAMILY FUN UNDER THE BIG TOP!
When a woman dies in a car accident, her former husband (a traveling circus worker) learns that his wife was pregnant when she divorced him many years earlier. The now teen-aged daughter enters his life. Can they form a relationship?
Top Billed Cast
Glenn Ford Peter 'Punch' Travers
Pam Griffin Jody Travers
Ruth Roman Lil Charny
Billy Barty Stilts
Pat Morita Takahasi
Kathleen Widdoes Margaret Howell Grant
Parley Baer Dan Baxter
Susan Brown Jen Kingsley
Don 'Red' Barry Franz Butz / Delbert Clyde Butz
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