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The Great Man's Lady

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Calorie Rating: 126
Released: 1941-10-31
MPAA Rating: NR
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Studios: Paramount Pictures,


In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.

Director / Directors

Clem Jones
Second Assistant Director


Cast

Barbara Stanwyck
Character: Hannah Sempler Hoyt
Joel McCrea
Character: Mr. Sempler
Brian Donlevy
Character: Steely Edwards

K.T. Stevens
Character: Girl Biographer
Thurston Hall
Character: Mr. Sempler
Lloyd Corrigan
Character: Mr. Cadwallader

Etta McDaniel
Character: Delilah
William B. Davidson
Character: Sen. Knobs
Lillian Yarbo
Character: Mandy

Helen Lynd
Character: Bettina
Mary Treen
Character: Persis
Lucien Littlefield
Character: City Editor

John Hamilton
Character: Sen. Grant
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Character: Pogey
George Irving
Character: Dr. Adams (uncredited)

Charles Lane
Character: Pierce (uncredited)
Theodore von Eltz
Character: Hank Allen (uncredited)
Damian O'Flynn
Character: Burns (uncredited)

Pat O'Malley
Character: Officer Murphy (uncredited)
Frank M. Thomas
Character: Frisbee
Irving Bacon
Character: Parson

Hank Bell
Character: Man #1, Hoyt City
Monte Blue
Character: Man #2, Hoyt City
Horace B. Carpenter
Character: Man in Saloon

George Chandler
Character: Forbes
David Clyde
Character: Bartender
Tom Coleman
Character: Spectator at Dedication

Tex Cooper
Character: Wagon Train Man
Tex Driscoll
Character: Wagon Train Member
Fern Emmett
Character: City Editor's Secretary

Sam Harris
Character: Politician on Dais
G.P. Huntley
Character: Quentin
Jack Kenny
Character: Man in Saloon

Ethan Laidlaw
Character: Man in Saloon
Larry Lawson
Character: Man #3, Hoyt City
Buck Mack
Character: Bartender

Lee Moore
Character: Gambler
Ottola Nesmith
Character: Mrs. Frisbee
Anna Q. Nilsson
Character: Paula Wales

Milton Parsons
Character: Foreman
Bob Perry
Character: Miner
Lee Phelps
Character: Chairman

Tex Phelps
Character: Townsman
John Roy
Character: Man in Saloon
Eleanor Stewart
Character: Miss Frisbee

Dorothy Vernon
Character: Spectator at Dedication
Charles Williams
Character: Assayer


Production and Crew

Edith Head
Costume Design
W.L. River
Screenplay

Victor Young
Original Music Composer
Hans Dreier
Art Direction

A. Earl Hedrick
Art Direction

Robert Ewing
Makeup Artist
William C. Mellor
Director of Photography