The Trial of Mary Dugan (1941)
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MGM's The Trial of Mary Dugan was based on the popular stage play by Bayard Vellier, previously filmed as a Norma Shearer vehicle in 1929. This time, Laraine Day is cast as Mary Dugan, a young stenographer who is falsely accused of murdering her philandering employer Edgar Wayne (Tom Conway). In the course of her trial, Mary falls in love with her attorney Jimmy Blake (Robert Young). The original Trial of Mary Dugan was highlighted by the heartfelt testimony of the tarnished heroine, who recounted a life of shame and degradation endured on behalf of her impoverished law-student brother. Thanks to the tightened censorial restrictions of 1941, Mary Dugan's checkered past is eliminated, leaving the viewer with just another courtroom melodrama. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Laraine Day - Mary Dugan
- Tom Conway - Edgar Wayne
- John Litel - Mr. West
- Marjorie Main - Mrs. Collins
- Sara Haden - Miss Mathews
- Ernie Alexander
- Paul Porcasi - Ship's Captain
- William Tannen - Driver
- Ian Wolfe - Dr. Winston
- George Watts - Inspector Hunt
- Minerva Urecal - Landlady
- Lewis Stone
- Betty Farrington - Spectator
- Hal Cooke
- Matt Moore - Bailiff
- Alma Kruger - Dr. Saunders
- Joan Barclay
- Robert Young - Jimmy Blake
- Frieda Inescort - Mrs. Wayne
- Marsha Hunt - Agatha Hall
- Henry O'Neill - Galway
- Francis Pierlot - John Masters
- Jessie Arnold
- William Stelling
- Joe Yule - Sign Painter
- Lawrence Wheat - Court Stenographer
- Pierre Watkin - Judge Nash
- Kay Sutton - Secretary
- Walter Lawrence - Newsboy
- Cliff Danielson - Robert, the Chauffeur
- Addison Richards - Capt. Price
- Anna Q. Nilsson - Juror
- Milt Kibbee - Court Clerk
- Cliff Clark - John Dugan
- Director(s):
- Norman Z. McLeod
- Writer(s):
- Bayard Veiller
- Producer(s):
- Edwin H. Knopf
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