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A Free Soul is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore and Clark Gable. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] A Free Soul became famous for Barrymore's climactic courtroom monologue, and he won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance. [8]
- You Choose, Think and Act Without The Need For Anyone’S Approval
- You Live Fearlessly and Have A Great Confidence in Yourself
- You Are A Sincere, Daring and Spontaneous Person
- You Know What You Fight For
- A Free Soul Does Not Know About Emotional Dependencies
- You Appreciate Even The Little Things in Your Life
- Life Inspires You, and Your Attitude Inspires Others
If you have reached that point in your lifewhere you do not need the approval of others, it means you have achieved true freedom. Throughout life, you often feel the need to be validated by society. First, it’s about pleasing your parents, then about impressing your schoolmates and colleagues. You do not change overnight to reveal yourself as you a...
Experts in the sphere of personal development and motivational psychology know well that fear is the enemy of great opportunities. Thus, if you stop worryingand visualizing the future in gloomy colors, you will be able to take much bigger steps in life. Happiness is always beyond fears. But to overcome this threshold, you need to have a good self-c...
Some of your key personality traits are sincerity but also a kind of impertinence. You’re spontaneous because you do not care what people say or think. Ironically, this actually makes them like you more and evokes positive emotions in those around you. Authentic people are free souls because their inner self is no longer censored. This manifestatio...
Despite the opinion of many people, being a free soul means not to shy away from responsibilities or to aspire to a foolish freedom. It is not like that at all. Free spiritsknow well what they fight for: for what they love, for what defines them, and for their happiness. The rest does not matter.
Sentimental addictions are another enemy of personal development. A relationship based on emotional dependencedestroys your identity, integrity and self-expression. A person who considers him/herself a free soul knows how to love another person without becoming addicted. Thus, you offer the best of yourself, but you continue being complete yourself...
Being free means to not chain yourself to anything that prevents you from growing or loving life. One can only gain freedom if one knows how to set a list of priorities and if s/he understands that the most important things in life are not materials but feelings. Emotions are born from the simplest, everyday experiences. It can be a meaningful conv...
Maybe many people have asked you what your secret is. “You are all day with the smile on your face, you always have time for everything. You do so many things and you always make people feel good about themselves … How do you do it?” You probably do not know what to answer because the philosophy of life you have created over time came naturally. Ho...
A Free Soul: Directed by Clarence Brown. With Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable. An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Clarence Brown
- 1931-06-20
When he wins a case for mobster Ace Wilfong, he invites Wilfong to a party being thrown at his parents' house to celebrate. At the party, Wilfong meets Stephen's daughter, Jan, and they run off...
Morally ambivalent defense attorney Stephen Ashe (Lionel Barrymore) gets mobster Ace Wilfong (Clark Gable) off the hook when he's brought up on charges of...
- (54)
- Norma Shearer
- Clarence Brown
- Drama
Stephen Ashe, a famous criminal lawyer, lives in San Francisco and is adored by his free-spirited daughter Jan. One day, Stephen, a freethinker who drinks too heavily and hates everyone in his family except for Jan, is invited by Grandma Ashe to a family dinner. After extending the invitation, the snobbish Grandma Ashe warns Jan not to let ...
A Free Soul (1931) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Clarence Brown and produced by Clarence Brown and Irving Thalberg. The film was based on the novel of the same name and also Stage Play written by Adela Rogers St. Johns published in 1927 (novel); Jan 12, 1928 - Apr 1928 (play performed at Playhouse Theatre, NY).
