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… More 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 of his wife devastates Holmes, but only briefly; he ends up serving his country for nearly forty years. The British title of Magnificent Yankee was The Man With Thirty Sons, a somewhat misleading reference to the Harvard Law graduates whom Oliver Wendell Holmes sponsored. Also available on videocassette is a 1965 TV production of Magnificent Yankee, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Nick Davis, Nick's Flick Picks
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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Cast
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Louis Calhern
as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Ann Harding
as Fanny Bowditch Holmes
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Philip Ober
as Mr. Owen Wister
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Ian Wolfe
as Mr. Adams
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Eduard Franz
as Judge Louis Brandeis
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Edith Evanson
as Annie Gough
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Jimmy Lydon
as Clinton
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Richard Anderson
as Reynolds
- David Alpert
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Herbert Anderson
as Baxter
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Marshall Bradford
as Head Waiter
- Wheaton Chambers
- Dick Cogan
- Jack Gargan
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Everett Glass
as Justice Peckham
- Sherry Hall
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John Hamilton
as Justice White
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Holmes Herbert
as Justice McKenna
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Selmar Jackson
as Lawyer
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William Johnstone
as Lawyer
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Todd Karns
as Secretary
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Stapleton Kent
as Court Clerk
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Freeman Lusk
as Announcer
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Robert Malcolm Young
as Marshall
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David McMahon
as Workman
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Tony Merrill
as Reporter
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Hayden Rorke
as Graham
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Hugh Sanders
as Parker
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George Spaulding
as Justice Hughes
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Dan Tobin
as Dixon
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Harlan Warde
as Norton
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Gayne Whitman
as Senator
- Wilson Wood
- James H. Horne
- Tommy Kelly
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Robert Sherwood
as Drake
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Jim Drum
as Secretary
- Gerald Pierce
- Bret Hamilton
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Charles Evans
as Chief Justice Fuller
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Robert Griffin
as Court Crier
