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The Medicine Man (1930 film)

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'The Medicine Man' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Scott Pembroke, released by Tiffany Pictures, and starring Jack Benny, Betty Bronson and Eva Novak.

This was an early role for Jack Benny. After talking pictures took over the silent film, vaudeville died, and Benny and many other comedians went to motion pictures.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021134 'The Medicine Man' details], IMDB.com; accessed December 5, 2015. The film was adapted from a play by Elliot Lester.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090213132336/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/42220 'The Medicine Man' details], ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed December 5, 2015.

A print is preserved in the Library of Congress.'Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress' p. 114, c. 1978 by The American Film Institute

Synopsis



The son and daughter of a shopkeeper fall in with the leader of a traveling medicine show.

Cast



*Jack Benny as Dr. John Harvey

*Betty Bronson as Mamie Goltz

*E. Alyn Warren as Goltz

*Eva Novak as Hulda

*Billy Butts as Buddy

*Adolph Millar as Peter

*George E. Stone as Steve

*Tom Dugan as Charley

*Vadim Uraneff as Gus

*Caroline Rankin as Hattie

*Dorothea Wolbert as Sister Wilson

References






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