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    Lilly Turner is a 1933 American pre-Code melodrama directed by William A. Wellman, starring Ruth Chatterton and produced by First National Pictures. It is based on the 1932 play of the same name by Phillip Dunning and George Abbott.

  2. Lilly Turner: Directed by William A. Wellman. With Ruth Chatterton, George Brent, Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee. A carnival magician deserts his wife when he finds out she's pregnant. She then marries the carnival's barker, but finds herself attracted to a young engineer.

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    • Drama, Romance
    • William A. Wellman
    • 1933-05-13
  3. Brief Synopsis. After unwittingly marrying a bigamist, a pregnant woman faces many trials on the road to romance.

    • William A. Wellman, Dolph Zimmer
    • Ruth Chatterton
  4. Chatterton plays the titular Lilly Turner, a naive, small-town girl whose fine speechin’ new husband is not in vaudeville after all, but something even less respectable, he’s a sideshow magician. Enter Frank McHugh as a carnival barker with a sore throat.

    • (240)
    • First National Pictures
    • William A. Wellman
  5. Lilly Turner (Ruth Chatterton) thinks she's found love with magician Rex Durkee (Gordon Westcott). But, underneath his dashing exterior, he's rotten to the core, as she soon learns when she...

    • Drama
  6. This film deals mainly with a woman named Lilly Turner, (Ruth Chatterton) who is involved with a carnival magician who deserts her because she is pregnant and then marries the carnival barker who is a drunk.

  7. Sep 7, 2018 · Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film. Lilly goes through a number of tragedies that would make censors blush soon enough. For one, it turns out her husband has been married before, and hadn’t bothered to get a divorce. As the first wife says grimly, “Touch luck, girlie. I know just how you feel.”.