

“One of the Best-Beloved Books of All Time Becomes a Stirring Columbia Picture!”
Elnora Comstock lives on the edge of a great swamp and collects butterflies to sell in order to go to high school and pay for violin lessons. Her mother, Kate Comstock, hates her as she blames the girl for the father's death as he drowned in a quagmire on the way home the night the girl was born. The years-late revelation that the husband had been off courting a neighbor woman that night brings an attitude adjustment to the mother.

James Bell
Wesley Sinton

Joyce Arling
Margaret Sinton

Charles Arnt
Hodges

Warren Mills
Chester Hopple

Lillian Bronson
Miss Blodgett

Peggy Converse
Jessie Reed

Carol Morris
Carrie

Jimmy Clark
Bob Stewart

Gloria Patrice
Schoolgirl

Ida Moore
Bird Woman (uncredited)