Query: American drama films set in 1917
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
The 24th
The Shopworn Angel
Fatima (2020 film)
The Public Enemy
1917 (2019 film)
The Godfather Part II
Indescribable (film)
Mata Hari (1931 film)
The Big Parade
Pretty Baby (1978 film)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film)
East of Eden (film)
Evidence from documents: The 24th: American drama films: '''''The 24th''''' is an American historical drama film
set in 1917: It tells the true story of the Houston riot of 1917.
The Shopworn Angel: '''''The Shopworn Angel''''' is a 1938 American drama film directed by H. C. Potter and starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Walter Pidgeon. The MGM release featured the second screen pairing of Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart following their successful teaming in the Universal Pictures production ''Next Time We Love'' two years earlier.


The screenplay by Waldo Salt is the third feature film adaptation of a Dana Burnet short story, "Private Pettigrew's Girl", originally published in the ''Saturday Evening Post'' in 1918. The first version was ''Pettigrew's Girl'', a silent film released in 1919, and the second was ''The Shopworn Angel'' (1928), a part-talkie released by Paramount Pictures starring Nancy Carroll, Gary Cooper, and Paul Lukas.
After the United States enters World War I in 1917, the limousine carrying Daisy Heath (Margaret Sullavan), a sophisticated Broadway musical theatre star, knocks down Bill Pettigrew (James Stewart), a naive young soldier from Texas. A policeman orders the chauffeur to take Bill back to camp. During the ride, he becomes slightly acquainted with the cynical, but not cold-hearted Daisy.
Fatima (2020 film): films set in 1917: The film, based on the 1917 Our Lady of Fátima events
drama films: '''''Fátima''''' is a 2020 faith-based drama film directed by Marco Pontecorvo.
The Public Enemy: American drama films: a 1931 American all-talking pre-Code gangster film
set in 1917: When America enters World War I in 1917, Mike enlists in the Marines.
1917 (2019 film): '''''1917''''' is a 2019 war film directed and produced by Sam Mendes, who co-wrote the film with Krysty Wilson-Cairns.
The Godfather Part II: In 1917, having settled in New York, he marries Carmela and they have a son, Santino, known as Sonny.
Indescribable (film): Blynn Lehman, one of nine children in a family in Pasadena, California during 1917 is facing many changes.
Mata Hari (1931 film): American drama films: '''''Mata Hari''''' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film
set in 1917: In 1917, France is embroiled in World War I.
The Big Parade: American drama films: is a 1925 American silent war drama film
set in 1917: In the United States in 1917, James "Jim" Apperson's (John Gilbert) idleness (in contrast to his hardworking brother) incurs the great displeasure of his wealthy businessman father.
Pretty Baby (1978 film): '''''Pretty Baby''''' is a 1978 American historical drama film directed by Louis Malle, and starring Brooke Shields, Keith Carradine, and Susan Sarandon. The screenplay was written by Polly Platt. The plot focuses on a 12-year-old prostitute in the red-light district of New Orleans soon after the beginning of the 20th century.


The title of the film is inspired by the Tony Jackson song "Pretty Baby", which is used in the soundtrack. Although the film was mostly praised by critics, it caused significant controversy due to its depiction of child prostitution and the nude scenes of Brooke Shields, who was 12 years old at the time of filming.
In 1917, during the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana, Hattie is a prostitute working at an elegant brothel run by the elderly, cocaine-sniffing Madame Nell. Hattie has given birth to a baby boy and has a 12-year-old daughter, Violet, who lives in the house. When photographer Ernest J. Bellocq comes with his camera, Hattie and Violet are the only people awake. He asks to be allowed to take photographs of the women. Madame Nell agrees only after he offers to pay.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (film): In 1917, "Baby Jane" Hudson is a spoiled and capricious child actress who performs in vaudeville theatres across the country with her father, who acts as her manager and accompanies her on stage on the piano. Her success is such that a line of porcelain dolls is made in her image. Meanwhile, her shy older sister Blanche lives in her shadow and is treated with contempt by the haughty Jane. As the sisters pass adolescence, their situations undergo a reversal; Jane's style of performing falls out of fashion, and her career declines as she descends into alcoholism, while Blanche becomes an acclaimed Hollywood actress. Mindful of a promise made to their mother, Blanche attempts to maintain a semblance of a career for Jane, going as far as to prevail on producers to guarantee acting roles for her. One evening in 1935, Blanche's career is cut short when she is paralyzed from the waist down in a mysterious car accident that is unofficially blamed on Jane, who is found three days later in a drunken stupor.
East of Eden (film): American drama films: '''''East of Eden''''' is a 1955 American period drama film directed by Elia Kazan, and loosely based on the fourth and final part of the 1952 novel of the same name by John Steinbeck.
set in 1917: The story is set in 1917, during World War I, in the central California coastal towns of Monterey and Salinas.