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Gambier's Advocate
Overview
Hazel Dawn starred as Clarissa, who upon graduating from a private girl's school learns that her widowed father has remarried. At first resentful of her new stepmother (Dorothy Bernard), Clarissa slowly warms up to the woman. Later on, the heroine falls in love with a handsome attorney named Gambier (James Kirkwood), only to be disillusioned when she catches the attorney and the stepmother in a warm embrace.
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Cast
Hazel Dawn
Clarissa
James Kirkwood
Stephen Gambier
Fuller Mellish
Cyrus Vane
Dorothy Bernard
Gene Vane
Robert Broderick
Mr. Muir
Maude Odell
Mrs. Muir
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