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Three guesses as to the profession of the heroine in Sob Sister. That's right: Jane Ray (Linda Watkins) is a girl reporter, both fearless and foolhardy. Jane's great rival is news-hound Garry Webster (James Dunn), whose love for the girl never gets in the way of his tireless pursuit of "big scoops." Eventually, Jane proves to be too smart for her own good and is captured by the villains. She is rescued not by Garry but by six-year-old kidnap victim Billy Stotesley (future "Our Gang" member Wally Albright), who cuts the ropes which bind our heroine. Naturally, this leads Garry to declare that he wants to marry Jane to keep her from harm's way -- but there's always another hot headline story just around the corner. Leading lady Linda Watkins, a Broadway veteran, returned to the stage shortly after appearing in Sob Sister, only to be "rediscovered" as a TV and movie character actress in the late 1950s.