Kentucky (1938)
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The blue grass of Kentucky was seen in three-strip Technicolor for the first time in this rambling racetrack drama. Sally Goodwin (Loretta Young) falls in love with Jack Dillon (Richard Greene), but the arrangement is complicated by a decades-old feud. Sally's uncle Peter (Walter Brennan, who won his second Academy Award for this appearance) has hated Jack's family ever since sides were chosen up in the Civil War. Jack secretly trains Peter's horse for the Kentucky Derby, causing the old man to nearly withdraw from the event out of pique. All is forgiven when the horse wins, but Brennan dies of the excitement, and his eulogy is read by a member of the family with whom he'd been feuding for nearly 70 years. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Loretta Young - Sally Goodwin
- Walter Brennan - Peter Goodwin
- Karen Morley - Mrs. Goodwin, 1861
- George H. Reed - Old Ben
- Delmar Watson - Thad Goodwin Jr: 1861
- Charles Lane - Auctioneer
- Harry Hayden - Racing Secretary
- Cliff Clark - Melish
- Charles Trowbridge - Doctor
- Edward Earle - Man
- Moroni Olsen - John Dillon II, 1937
- Eddie "Rochester" Anderson - Groom
- Matthew "Stymie" Beard - Boy
- Lee Shumway - Sergeant
- Walter Miller - Cavalry Sergeant
- John Nesbitt - Commentator
- Chick Chandler - Clerk
- Russell Hicks - Thad Goodwin, Sr., 1861
- Richard Greene - Jack Dillon
- Douglas Dumbrille - John Dillon, 1861
- Willard Robertson - Bob Sloeum
- Bobs Watson - Peter Goodwin, 1861
- Leona Roberts - Grace Goodwin
- Charles B. Middleton - Southerner
- Robert Middlemass - Track Official
- Frederick Burton - Presiding Officer
- Stanley Andrews - Presiding Judge
- Mme. Sul Te Wan - Old Lily
- Thaddeus Jones - Zeb
- John Elliott - Purchaser
- Robert Lowery - Dance Partner at Ball
- Joan Valerie - Lucy Pemberton
- Douglas Wood - Race Track Patron
- Lee Murray - Palisades' Jockey
- Margaret Irving - Woman
- Billy McClain - Zeke
- Director(s):
- David Butler
- Writer(s):
- John Taintor Foote, Lamar Trotti
- Producer(s):
- Darryl F. Zanuck, Gene Markey
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