Valiant Is The Word For Carrie - Cast

Cast

• Gladys George as Carrie Snyder, is a prostitute who is forced from her home in the south. She takes Paul Darnley and Lady to the city to start a new life with her. She opens up a cleaning business, which becomes quite successful. Later she assists Lilli with breaking her lover out of jail, in order to get her away from Paul. The plan doesn't work and Carrie is sent to jail. She decides to plead guilty to protect the children from being scorned by her past life.
• Arline Judge as Lady, loves and admire's Paul, but he is too busy taking care of Lilli to notice. She ends up marrying Mat Burdon.
• John Howard as Paul Darnley, is shoved by Franz Eipper into a crowded train. After he shoves Franz back, he causes Franz to be run over by the train when his coat becomes stuck in the door. Paul feels incredibly guilty about this and spends the next few years taking care of Franz's sister, Lilli. It is not until after Carrie risks her life to get Lilli away from Paul, that Paul sees how much Lilli took advantage of him. (see below for later life)
• Dudley Digges as Dennis Ringrose, Paul's employer.
• Harry Carey as Phil Yonne, an old lawyer friend of Carrie's.
• Isabel Jewell as Lilli Eipper, sister of Franz Eipper. After her brother is killed in a train accident, inadvertently caused by Paul Darnley, she makes Paul feel very guilty and uses him to try to get money. She plans to marry Paul and take all of his money, but tells Carrie that she will leave him now if Carrie will pay to get her lover out of jail. Carrie agrees and the two go to break Lilli's lover (a doctor) out of jail. However one of the people they paid off double crosses them, and Lilli is shot dead.
• Jackie Moran as Young Paul Darnley, an eccentric young boy who likes taking care of stray cats and the like. He befriends Carrie, a town outcast, but is beaten by his father who disapproves of her. He runs away from home and lives by the river for a while. One night, he meets Lady at the sight of a train crash, and he reluctantly agrees to let her stay with him. Eventually he moves to the City with Carrie and Lady. (see above for adult life)
• Charlene Wyatt as Young Lady, a young girl who is being transported from an unknown location to an unknown location. She doesn't like the people she is with however, and begs Paul Darnley to let her come with him after she meets him when the train she is on crashes. When Carrie Snyder comes back to take Paul to the city with her, she initially does not want to take Lady as well, but Paul convinces her to change her mind. When they move to the city Carrie tries to get Lady to go by Lala Desolles, insisting that "there's no such name as Lady", but Lady refuses. (see above for adult life)
• John Wray as George Darnley, Paul Darnley's father. He beats his son after finding out that he has made friends with the town whore.
• William Collier Sr. as Ed Moresby, a town councilman who convinces Carrie to leave town before she is forced out.
• Hattie McDaniel as Ellen Belle, the Darnley's servant. Carrie gives all of her old clothes to Belle's daughter, and it is Belle who informs Carrie of Paul's situation at home.
• Lew Payton as Lon Olds, a horse and buggie driver in Crebillon. He goes to Carrie's new home in the city to inform her that Paul Darnley has run away from home.
• Maude Eburne as Maggie Devlin, works with Paul.
• Grady Sutton as Mat Burdon, a man Lady meets and Hastily marries.
• Janet Young as Mrs. Darnley, Paul Darnley's dying mother. She begs her husband to stop beating Paul, but is bedridden and unable to stop him.
• Adrienne D'Ambricourt as Madame Odette Desolles, owner of the original Desolles laundry shop that Carrie buys. Carrie decides to keep the Desolles name for marketing purposes, and eventually the chain becomes quite successful. Desolles is alsoselected to become Lady's last name.
• Helen Lowell as Mrs. Wadsworth, a ton councilwoman in Crebillon.
• Bernard Suss as Franz Eipper, a man who is pushing and shoving to try to get on to a train. After Paul shoves him back, his (Franz's) coat gets stuck in the train door, with Franz outside the train. This causes Franz to be dragged along with the train and after a few yards his legs are runover. Paul pulls the emergency brake to make the train stop, and yells for medical help, but it is too late. After his death, his sister, Lilli, uses his death to make Paul Darnley feel obligated to take care of her.