The Magnificent Yankee

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The Magnificent Yankee ★★★ The Man with Thirty Sons 1950

Adaptation of Emmet Lavery's Broadway play on the life of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, starring Calhern (who also did the stage version). America's foremost legal mind was wellserved by Calhern, with Harding as his everpatient wife. 80m/B VHS . Louis Calhern, Ann Harding, Eduard Franz, Philip Ober, Ian Wolfe, Edith Evanson, Richard Anderson, Jimmy Lydon, Robert Sherwood, Hugh Sanders; D: John Sturges; W: Emmet Lavery.

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