Local commuter traveling through the village during wartime transportation.
A rising young prize-fighter aiming for the middleweight championship. He marries Betty, but her family's financial exploitation and a fabricated lie about a pregnancy lead him into debt and a disastrous championship fight. Physically and mentally broken, he eventually reconciles with his wife after her family is evicted.
Lem Blossom is the central character, a young man who falls in love with Mary Griggs despite her existing relationship with Tom Perkins. After failing to sell pumpkins, he conceives a plan to corner the pumpkin market and makes thousands of dollars. He also invents a fire-pumper and risks his life to rescue Mary from a house fire.
The big-hearted son of Mrs. Walden, Rex falls in love with Leila and proposes marriage despite protests from his family and friends. He becomes devoted to her, but when he learns she has left him for his older brother, Franklin, her callous behavior drives him to suicide.
Richard spots Toni playing piano from across the hotel courtyard and tries to attract her attention with signals from his room. After Rosa invites him over, he flirts with Toni, who initially resists his advances. He later joins Toni and Rosa for dinner, reveals that Colonel Dupont is his uncle, and falls in love with Toni during a walk through the hotel garden.
Spoiled son of a wealthy railroad owner, sent by his father to turn $5,000 into $100,000. He takes initiative by capturing his father's representative and his father to force station construction, ultimately succeeds, earns his father's pride, and wins Hazel's hand in marriage.
Andy Fletcher is a village blacksmith whose desire to buy a car is tied to his interest in Alice Flint. After obtaining a motored relic, he takes Alice and her father on a drive, later enters an automobile race, and pursues and captures Alden J. Armitage after Armitage robs the bank.
Bob is the spendthrift son of a millionaire who marries beauty contest winner Lory Knight. After she leaves him, he takes a job in a shoe store and succeeds as a salesman. When Bernice's trick puts him in danger from the Lane family, he escapes and uses a charity auction to win his wife back.
Everett is the overworked son of a country banker, forced to labor on his father's farm even on Sundays and treated harshly at home. After running away to New York, he earns a living as a country dancer. When his girlfriend asks for help during a run on the family bank, he returns and saves it.
A laborer in Peter Garton's steel mill, Tod is severely injured while saving his employer's life and is taken to the Garton mansion to recover. Garton adopts him, but Tod's engagement to Janet Muir is strained by her grandfather's feud with Garton. He hires Janet as a stenographer, then leaves with her after Garton dismisses her.
Andrew is a shy young office worker who stutters, though he knows more about his employer's automobile business than anyone else in the office. He accidentally lets Dorothy believe he is William Blinker and meets Josiah Dodge under that assumed name. His personality wins them over, helping him secure the truck contract and win Dorothy.
Toby is a farmhand who writes poetry for the Sabert Weekly Clarion, angering his uncle and eventually leaving home after a quarrel. He joins the paper as a bill collector and rises to foreman of the composing room. After learning of Kendall Reeves's scheme, he takes the ill editor's place, then later saves Lot Morris and captures Reeves.
Charles Ray has 115 screen credits in a career dating back to 1913. Their work is anchored in the Mrs. Miniver Collection universe with 1 titles. Signature works include The Count of Ten, Some Pun'kins, Smudge. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.
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