A couple loses their child shortly after they learn they will never be able to have another. The wife, Edna, sets up the Texas Children's Home and Aid Society, which specializes in caring for illegitimate children and offering them for adoption. After her husband's death, Edna becomes a powerful political figure, succeeding in removing the stigma of illegitimacy by having that word stricken from all future Texas birth certificates.
Edna Gladney . . . Greer Garson
Sam Gladney . . . Walter Pidgeon
BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST was released by MGM on July 25, 1941. Greer Garson received her second Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role as Edna Gladney.
