One Mile from Heaven

One Mile from Heaven is a 1937 American drama film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Lou Breslow and John Patrick. The film stars Claire Trevor, Sally Blane, Douglas Fowley, Fredi Washington, Joan Carroll and Ralf Harolde. The film was released on August 18, 1937, by 20th Century Fox.

Plot
While investigating a bogus murder story in a black neighborhood, a reporter, Lucy "Tex" Warren (Claire Trevor) notices a little girl named Sunny who appears to be white. Tex also encounters Sunny's mother, Flora Jackson (Fredi Washington), a fair-skinned black seamstress. Suspicious of the relationship between the two, Tex and other reporters investigate, only to turn up evidence (photos and a hospital record) that support Flora's claim.

Tex then encounters a prison convict who claims that Sunny is the child of a deceased criminal Cliff Lucas, whose wife, Barbara (Sally Blane), had attempted to leave with the baby and wound up in a car accident. Lucas had secretly tailed Barbara and took the baby from the wreck while his wife was unconscious. Upon waking in the hospital, Barbara was told that the baby had died.

Lucas hired Flora to take care of the child; he told her that his wife deserted him and the baby. After Lucas was killed by police, Flora did not want the baby to go to an orphanage, so she reared Sunny as her own. Barbara, on being informed that her daughter is still alive, applies to recover her child. After seeing Flora and Sunny's strong attachment to each other, she asks Flora to live with them as a nurse. The judge forbids Tex to publish the story, feeling that the notoriety would negatively affect Sunny.

Cast

 * Claire Trevor as Lucy 'Tex' Warren
 * Sally Blane as Barbara Harrison
 * Douglas Fowley as Jim Tabor
 * Fredi Washington as Flora Jackson
 * Joan Carroll as Sunny
 * Ralf Harolde as Moxie McGrath
 * John Eldredge as Jerry Harrison
 * Paul McVey as Johnny
 * Ray Walker as Mortimer (Buck) Atlas
 * Russell Hopton as Peter Brindell
 * Chick Chandler as Charlie Milford
 * Eddie "Rochester" Anderson as Henry Bangs
 * Howard Hickman as Judge Clarke
 * Bill Robinson as Officer Joe Dudley