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The magnificent Yankee
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Dramatizes the life of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, from his appointment to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt, through the administrations of Taft, Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, with p...
Dramatizes the life of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, from his appointment to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt, through the administrations of Taft, Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, with particular focus on the love between Holmes and his wife Fanny, and their relationships with their many "sons," Holmes' law students.
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- Creator
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. ; written by Emmet Lavery ; produced by Armand Deutsch ; directed by John Sturges
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Sturges, John, 1910-1992, director
- Deutsch, Armand, producer
- Lavery, Emmet, 1902-1986, author of screenplay
- Calhern, Louis, 1895-1956, actor
- Harding, Ann, 1902-1981, actor
- Raksin, David, composer
- Green, Bernard, 1908-1975
- Clymer, Warren
- Taylor, Noel, 1913-2010
- Blaney, James
- Weill, Frank
- O'Bradovich, Bob
- Grimaldi, Robert
- Wynn, Gordon R
- Friend, John E. (John Edward)
- Lunt, Alfred
- Fontanne, Lynn
- Franz, Eduard, 1902-1983
- Emhardt, Robert, 1914-1994
- Daly, James, 1918-1978
- Lavery, Emmet, 1902-1986
- Hartung, Robert
- Schaefer, George, 1920-1997
- Lavery, Emmet, 1902-1986. Magnificent Yankee
- Biddle, Francis, 1886-1968. Mr. Justice Holmes
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Turner Entertainment Co
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Warner Home Video (Firm)
- Publication
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- Full screen
- [Calif.] : Turner Entertainment Co. ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2009]
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- OCLC
- ocn424642313
- Credits
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- Edith Evanson (Annie Gough); James Lydon (Clinton); Richard Anderson (Reynolds); Guy Anderson (Baxter); Ian Wolf (Adams); Philip Ober (Owen Wister); Eduard Franz (Louis Brandeis); Ann Harding (Fanny Bowditch Holmes); Louis Calhern (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the Magnificent Yankee); Robert Sherwood (Drake); Hugh Sanders (Parker); Harlan Warde (Norton); Charles Evans (Chief Justice Fuller); John R. Hamilton (Justice White); Dan Tobin (Dixon); Robert E. Griffin (court crier); Stapleton Kent (clerk of court); Robert Malcolm (marshall); Everett Glass (Justice Peckman); Hayden Rorke (Graham); Marshall Bradford (headwaiter); Holmes Herbert (Justice McKenna); Selmer Jackson, William Johnstone (lawyers); George Spaulding (Justice Hughes); Todd Karns, Robert Board, Wilson Wood, James Horne, Gerald Pierce, Lyle Clark, David Alpert, Tommy Kelly, Bret Hamilton, Jim Drum (secretaries); David McMahon (workman); Freeman Lusk (announcer); Fred Gillman (driver); Sherry Hall, Jack Gargan, Dick Cogan, Tony Merrill (reporters); Wheaton Chambers, Gayne Whitman (senators)
- Music, David Raksin ; director of photography, Joseph Ruttenberg ; editor, Ferris Webster ; music conducted by Bernard Green; settings, Warren Clymer; costumes, Noel Taylor; lighting, Philip Hymes; audio, James Blaney; video, Arnold Dick; video tape editor, Frank Weill; makeup, Bob O'Bradovich; hair stylist, Robert Grimaldi; stage managers, Sam Kirshman, Paul Lipson; production assistant, Joyce Meckler; graphic arts, Stas Pyka; associate director, Adrienne Luraschi; technical director, O. Tamburri; unit manager, Bruce Bassett; for Compass Productions, Inc., Sybil Trubin, Joan H. Frank, Gordon R. Wynne, Jr., John E. Friend; associate producer, Robert Hartung
- "This disc is expected to play back in "play only" devices and may not play on other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives."--Container.
- Based on the play The magnificent Yankee, by Emmet Lavery, as produced and staged by Arthur Hopkins, opening in New York on January 22, 1946, which was based on the book Mr. Justice Holmes by Francis Biddle, originally published in New York in 1942.
- Also aired on National Broadcasting Company's Hallmark hall of fame program in 1965.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1950.
- Includes trailer.
- NTSC; mono.; Dolby digital; 1.33:1 aspect ratio.