Carolina is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Henry King, with a screenplay by Reginald Berkley based on the 1931 play The House of Connelly by Paul Green, and starring Janet Gaynor, Lionel Barrymore, and Robert Young. The supporting cast features Stepin Fetchit and Shirley Temple in a romanticized story about a post-Civil War family in the fading Southern United States, that regaining its former prestige.
Plot Forty years after the Civil War, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly (Robert Young) marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate (Janet Gaynor), despite the objections of his temperamental mother. Lionel Barrymore plays Will's Uncle Bob Connelly.
Cast
Janet Gaynor as Joanna Tate Lionel Barrymore as Bob Connelly Robert Young as Will Connelly Henrietta Crosman as Mrs. Ellen Connelly Richard Cromwell as Alan Mona Barrie as Virginia Buchanan Stepin Fetchit as Scipio Ronnie Cosby as Harry Tate Jackie Cosbey as Jackie Tate Almeda Fowler as Geraldine Connelly Alden "Stephen" Chase as Jack Hampton Shirley Temple as Joan Connelly (uncredited)
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