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Mirian Wilkins, the teenage daughter of Senator Wilkins, starts a Society for the Rehabilitation of Criminals and, without the approval or knowledge of her father, elects him to the position of honorary president. When the family's new gardener, Baxter, turns out to be a notorious ex-convict who was sentenced to prison by Senator Wilkins when he was a judge, Wilkins considers firing him until his daughter points out that would be an unwise decision considering the position her father held on society.
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May 30, 1951
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Mona Freeman
Miriam Wilkins
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Billy De Wolfe
Albert
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Edward Arnold
Senator Wilkins
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Lyle Bettger
Baxter
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Mary Philips
Edie Wilkins
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Natalie Wood
Pauline Baxter
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William Reynolds
Robbie Clark (as William Regnolds)
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Frank Cady
Parole Officer Creavy
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Lillian Randolph
Dora
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Mary Field
Criminal Records Clerk (uncredited)
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Elizabeth Flournoy
Miss Pratt (uncredited)
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Bess Flowers
Laura Millikan, reporter (uncredited)
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Tor Johnson
The new gardener (uncredited)
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Minerva Urecal
Neighbor (uncredited)
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Katherine Warren
Mrs. Clark (uncredited)
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