"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. 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). 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.
Summary:
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.
Series:
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group archive collection
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