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The Lady from Cheyenne Reviews

  • 1941
  • 1 hr 27 mins
  • Drama
  • NR
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A schoolteacher (Loretta Young) relocates in 1870 Wyoming, and confronts crooked politics and women's suffrage. Robert Preston, Edward Arnold, Gladys George. Hank: Frank Craven. Noisy: Joe Sawyer. Mrs. McGuinness: Jessie Ralph. Governor: Samuel S. Hinds. George: Willie Best. Stover: Stanley Fields. McGuinness: Spencer Charters. Chorus Girls: Iris Adrian, Marion Martin. Crowley: Emory Parnell. Directed by Frank Lloyd.

Young is a Quaker schoolteacher who battles gambler Arnold, and, in the process, establishes women's voting rights in Wyoming in 1869. She also secures for women the right to sit on a jury, enabling the ladies to convict racketeer Arnold. The characters are symbolically made-to-order--Young is the frail, liberated, educated, Quaker (the model woman) and Arnold is a vulgar, gambling, boozing mobster (the typical man).