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The Great Gildersleeve (film)
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Wikipedia article
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| director = Gordon Douglas
William Dorfman (assistant)
| producer = Herman Schlom
| writer = Jack Townley
Julien Josephson
| starring = Harold Peary
Jane Darwell
| music = Constantin Bakaleinikoff
| cinematography = Frank Redman
| editing = John Lockert
| studio = RKO Radio Pictures
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| runtime = 62 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
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'The Great Gildersleeve' is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. Based on the popular NBC radio series 'The Great Gildersleeve' created by Leonard L. Levinson, which ran from 1941 to 1950, this is the first of four films in the Gildersleeve series produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jack Townley and Julien Josephson, and the film stars Harold Peary and Jane Darwell. Other films in the series are 'Gildersleeve's Bad Day' (1943), 'Gildersleeve on Broadway' (1943) and 'Gildersleeve's Ghost' (1944).
Plot summary
Cast
* Harold Peary as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve
* Jane Darwell as Aunt Emma Forrester
* Nancy Gates as Marjorie Forrester
* Charles Arnt as Judge Horace Hooker
* Freddie Mercer as Leroy Forrester
* Thurston Hall as Governor John Stafford
* Lillian Randolph as Birdie Lee Calkins
* Mary Field as Amelia Hooker
* George Carleton as Frank Powers
* George Chandler as Messenger Boy
References
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