Father Is a Prince (1940)
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Father is a Prince is a scaled-down remake of the 1934 comedy-drama Big Hearted Herbert, itself based on a play by Sophie Kerr Underwood. Grant Mitchell plays tyrannical paterfamilias Mr. Bower, who runs his home like he runs his carpet-sweeper factory: pinching pennies, turning off lights, and interfering in every aspect of his loved ones' private lives. What with trying to manage things at home and attempting to hoodwink the IRS at the factory, Bower is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The limit comes when he humiliates his daughter Connie (Jan Clayton) at the home of his prospective in-laws with his obnoxious behavior. But Bowers' essential decency and humanity finally surfaces when his wife (Dora Bryant) is forced to undergo emergency surgery. The nominal leading man is future Superman star George Reeves, though perhaps the role should have gone to John Ridgely, who makes a meal of his bit part as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Nana Bryant - Mrs. Bower
- John Litel - Dr. Stone
- Jan Clayton - Connie Bower
- Pierre Watkin - Mr. Lee
- Billy Dawson - Tommy Bower
- Creighton Hale - Lawrence
- Richard Clayton - Junior Bower
- Hope Landin - Woman
- Jack Mower - Postman
- Grant Mitchell - John Bower
- George Reeves - Gary Lee
- Lee Patrick - Aunt
- Mary Currier - Mrs. Lee
- Frank Ferguson - Uncle Ben Haley
- Frank Wilcox - IRS investigator
- John Ridgely - McCarthy the vacuum salesman
- Vera Lewis - Carrie
- Frank Orth - Soda jerk
- Director(s):
- Noel Smith
- Writer(s):
- Robert Kent, Robert Kent
- Producer(s):
- William Jacobs
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