Undoubted appeal of the Betty Smith novel fails to come through in any appreciable measure in its filmic translation, at best a lightweight entry. Undoubted appeal of the Betty Smith novel fails ...

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Thus did Betty Smith make the journey from dirt poverty to fame and fortune literally overnight. New York’s influential reviewers uniformly fell out of their shoes in awe of her 443-page offering.