Babbitt

19241924
1h 20m

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Drama

George F. Babbitt, middle-aged, respectable, a prosperous real estate man, tired of the routine of family life, finds he has let life slip by. In an attempt to renew his youth he begins an a... Read allGeorge F. Babbitt, middle-aged, respectable, a prosperous real estate man, tired of the routine of family life, finds he has let life slip by. In an attempt to renew his youth he begins an affair with an alluring young woman.George F. Babbitt, middle-aged, respectable, a prosperous real estate man, tired of the routine of family life, finds he has let life slip by. In an attempt to renew his youth he begins an affair with an alluring young woman.

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Director
- Harry Beaumont
Writers
- Dorothy Farnum
- Sinclair Lewis(novel)
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- Harry Beaumont
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- Dorothy Farnum
- Sinclair Lewis(novel)
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George F. Babbitt, middle-aged, respectable, a prosperous real estate man in the city of Zenith, tired of the routine of family life, finds he has let life slip by. In an attempt to renew his youth he begins an affair with Tanis Judique, an alluring young woman, with whom he plans to leave town; at the pleas of his son, however, he returns to his sick wife, confesses his foolishness, and resumes the happiness of family life.

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This film is believed to be lost. In the late 1940s and 1950s, Warner Bros. destroyed many of its negatives due to nitrate film decomposition. Studio records indicate that the negative of filmography pre-1931 was marked "Junked 12/27/48" (December 27, 1948).