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3 unusual facts about Susan and God


Susan and God

Crothers' play was reportedly inspired by a real-life religious movement of the day, Dr. Frank Buchman's Oxford Group of the 1930s.

Susan (Joan Crawford), a flighty society matron, returns from Europe earlier than expected waxing enthusiastic about a new religious movement.

She is estranged from her intelligent and sensitive husband, Barrie (Fredric March) -- who has been driven to drink by his wife's insensitivity -- and she has neglected her introverted and maladjusted daughter, Blossom (Rita Quigley).



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Cecil Broadhurst

In 1940 He appeared singing one of his cowboy songs in the movie Susan and God starring Joan Crawford.