Children of Loneliness (Lost 1937 Film)

Children of Loneliness is a 1937 exploitation melodrama film written and directed by Richard C. Kahn. The film is said to be inspired by the 1928 novel, The Well of Loneliness. The film is also notable for being one of the first exploitation film's to explore the subject of homosexuality. The film has never appeared in any form of online media.

Plot
The film revolved around Bobby, a vindictive lesbian obsessed with her roommate Eleanor who works in a law office. There is also a parallel story revolving around a young woman at the same law firm who falls for a gay male artist. The gay characters don't fare well in the story resulting in the artist committing suicide after being told he could never have normal marriage. The two female characters enter a conflict resulting in Bobby attempting to throw acid on Eleanor, only to have it land on her face. Blinded, she runs into the street and his killed by a car.

Cast

 * Dr S. Dana Hubbard as himself
 * Wallace Morgan as The Artist
 * Luana Walters as Eleanor
 * Jean Carmen as Bobby
 * Sheila Loren as Judith Grant

Behind the Scenes
After the film screened, occasionally a doctor would come out into the audience to sell pamphlets designed to explain, and likely cure, homosexuality. As the topic of homosexuality was becoming much more pervasive in American culture by the 1930s, such films took advantage of the moment to educate as well as exploit this newfound curiosity. It is difficult to know what contemporary queer men and women thought of such films, if they attended them in droves, and whether they took them seriously or not.