Jennie Gerhardt (film)

Jennie Gerhardt is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Marion Gering for Paramount Pictures.

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[2] Mordaunt Hall of The New York Times stated that "although the film is handicapped by a lack of suspense and some choppy and trite dialogue, it possesses a laudable sincerity, which may result in its being popular with those who are partial to this genre of story."

It is like a story told in a monotone, with vacillating characters who are a little too much at the beck and call of the director.

However, he believed that Gering had inexplicably "inserted several jarring scenes apparently in an attempt to provide the audience with some comic relief.