The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
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Louis Calhern repeats his Broadway role as Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in this 1950 cinemazation of Emmet Lavery's stage play The Magnificent Yankee. The film is for the most part confined to the Holmes home in Washington, where the good gray judge parries affectionately with his level-headed wife Fanny (Ann Harding). A steady stream of historical personages parade through the Holmes manse, including jurist Louis Brandeis (Eduard Franz) and novelist Owen Wister (Philip Ober). The death
Nov 10, 1993
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Cast
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Louis Calhern
Oliver Wendell Holmes J... -
Ann Harding
Fanny Bowditch Holmes -
Philip Ober
Mr. Owen Wister -
Ian Wolfe
Mr. Adams -
Eduard Franz
Judge Louis Brandeis -
Edith Evanson
Annie Gough -
Jimmy Lydon
Clinton -
Richard Anderson
Reynolds -
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Herbert Anderson
Baxter -
Marshall Bradford
Head Waiter -
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Everett Glass
Justice Peckham -
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John Hamilton
Justice White -
Holmes Herbert
Justice McKenna -
Selmar Jackson
Lawyer -
William Johnstone
Lawyer -
Todd Karns
Secretary -
Stapleton Kent
Court Clerk -
Freeman Lusk
Announcer -
Robert Malcolm Young
Marshall -
David McMahon
Workman -
Tony Merrill
Reporter -
Hayden Rorke
Graham -
Hugh Sanders
Parker -
George Spaulding
Justice Hughes -
Dan Tobin
Dixon -
Harlan Warde
Norton -
Gayne Whitman
Senator -
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Robert Sherwood
Drake -
Jim Drum
Secretary -
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Charles Evans
Chief Justice Fuller -
Robert Griffin
Court Crier
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All Critics (5) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (1)
So inoffensive and so insignificant, it makes you wonder why a film version of Emmet Lavery's play was either desired or delivered...there's just no apparent motive.
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