Jalna (film)

Jalna is a 1935 RKO Radio Pictures film based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Mazo de la Roche. It stars Kay Johnson, Ian Hunter and C. Aubrey Smith. In the film, a newlywed has to adjust to her husband's odd family.

Cast

 * Kay Johnson as Alayne Archer Whiteoak
 * Ian Hunter as Renny Whiteoak
 * C. Aubrey Smith as Uncle Nicholas Whiteoak
 * Nigel Bruce as Maurice Vaughan
 * David Manners as Eden Whiteoak
 * Peggy Wood as Meg Whiteoak
 * Jessie Ralph as Gran Whiteoak
 * Theodore Newton as Piers Whiteoak
 * Halliwell Hobbes as Uncle Ernest Whiteoak
 * George Offerman, Jr. as Finch Whiteoak
 * Clifford Severn as Wakefield "Wake" Whiteoak
 * Molly Lamont as Pheasant Vaughan Whiteoak
 * Forrester Harvey as Rags

Reception
The critic for The New York Times wrote, "the Whiteoaks are an interesting family—on paper or on the screen—and ... this first photoplay about them manages to do them justice." The reviewer praised "the generally splendid characterizations by an excellent cast".