Carolina is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic comedy film directed by Henry King, with a screenplay by Reginald Berkley based on the 1931 play The House of Connelly by Paul Green, and starring Janet Gaynor, Lionel Barrymore, and Robert Young. The supporting cast features Stepin Fetchit and Shirley Temple in a romanticized story about a post-Civil War family in the fading Southern United States, that regaining its former prestige.
Forty years after the Civil War, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly (Robert Young) marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate (Janet Gaynor), despite the objections of his temperamental mother. Lionel Barrymore plays Will's Uncle Bob Connelly.