What Price Innocence? [SEP] director
What Price Innocence?
What Price Innocence? is a 1933 American Pre-Code drama film written and directed by, and co-starring, Willard Mack. Produced on a low budget for Columbia Pictures, it has been classed as an exploitation film and "sex hygiene film" because it touches on teenage pregnancy and morality in a didactic manner. The film features Betty Grable in an early starring role.
Plot.
Dr. Dan Davidge, a kindly, old family doctor, travels from house to house, observing
, he made his talkie debut as actor, director, and co-writer of the 1929 film "Voice of the City". In 1933 he directed "What Price Innocence?". He then wrote and directed "Broadway to Hollywood", a backstage musical that spanned nearly five decades recounting the struggles of a vaudeville family.
He was married four times, to actresses Maude Leone, Marjorie Rambeau, Pauline Frederick, and Beatrice Banyard.
His writing success made him a wealthy man. He died in Brentwood