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Black Beauty is a american film of genre Drama directed by Max Nosseck released in USA on 29 august 1946 with Mona Freeman
Black Beauty (1946)
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Add to a movie listBlack Beauty is a 1946 American drama film directed by Max Nosseck and based on Anna Sewell's novel of the same name.
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The story picks up in 1880s England, when widower Squire Wendon's (Charles Evans) mare Duchess is about to give birth to a foal. He has denied his adolescent daughter Anne (Mona Freeman) to watch, but the girl sneaks into the stables and watches anyway.Actors
Mona Freeman
(Anne Wendon)
Richard Denning
(Bill Dixon)
Evelyn Ankers
(Evelyn Carrington)
J. M. Kerrigan
(John)
Moyna MacGill
(Mrs. Blake)
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