MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME (1938) Evelyn Venable, Grant Richards & Clara Blandick | Drama, Romance | B&W

My Old Kentucky Home is a 1938 American romantic drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Evelyn Venable, Grant Richards and Clara Blandick. It takes its title from the song "My Old Kentucky Home". It was distributed by Monogram Pictures. The film's sets were designed by the art director Frank Dexter.

SYNOPSIS
Larry Blair is engaged to Lisbeth, but is tempted by the attractions of a female singer. When Larry suffers an accident and risks losing his sight, it is Lisbeth who nurses him back to health.

Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.

CAST & CREW
Evelyn Venable as Lisbeth Calvert
Grant Richards as Larry Blair
Clara Blandick as Julia 'Granny' Blair
Bernadene Hayes as Gail Burke
J. Farrell MacDonald as Mayor Jim Hopkins
Margaret Marquis as Lucy Belle
Cornelius Keefe as Trent Burke
Kitty McHugh as Peggy Price
Raquel Davidovich as Babette
Paul White as Scipio-Singer
Mildred Gover as Callio
Hall Johnson as Leader of the Hall Johnson Choir

Directed by Lambert Hillyer
Written by John T. Neville
Produced by E.B. Derr, Frank Melford
Cinematography Arthur Martinelli
Edited by Finn Ulback
Music by Abe Meyer
Production company Crescent Pictures
Distributed by Monogram Pictures
Release date February 9, 1938
Running time 72 minutes
Country United States
Language English