The Shopworn Angel

The Shopworn Angel
Theatrical release poster
Directed byH.C. Potter
Written by
Based on"Private Pettigrew's Girl"
1918 short story
by Dana Burnet
Produced byJoseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring
CinematographyJoseph Ruttenberg
William H. Daniels (uncredited)
Edited byW. Donn Hayes
Music byEdward Ward
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • July 15, 1938 (1938-07-15) (USA)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$531,000[1]
Box office$1,042,000[1]

The Shopworn Angel is a 1938 American drama film directed by H. C. Potter and starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart and Walter Pidgeon.[2][3] The MGM release featured the second screen pairing of Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart following their successful teaming in the Universal Pictures production Next Time We Love two years earlier.

The screenplay by Waldo Salt is the third feature film adaptation of a Dana Burnet short story, "Private Pettigrew's Girl", originally published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1918. The first version was Pettigrew's Girl, a silent film released in 1919, and the second was The Shopworn Angel (1928), a part-talkie released by Paramount Pictures starring Nancy Carroll, Gary Cooper, and Paul Lukas.

  1. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
  2. ^ Variety film review; July 13, 1938, page 15.
  3. ^ Harrison's Reports film review; July 16, 1938, page 115.