One Foot in Heaven (1941)
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Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars as Methodist cleric William Spence, whose calling requires him to move his family from parish to parish on a near-monthly basis. The children resent the fact that they're never able to sustain friendships, while Reverend Spence is equally upset by what he perceives to be encroaching immorality in the early 20th century. Spence's stubbornness loses him as many parishioners as he gains, but he is gradually humanized by a series of random events. In the best of these, the Reverend, who has railed against movies from the pulpit, attends a "scandalous" picture show--and as the picture reaches its climax, he finds himself cheering on the good guys as loudly as everyone else! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Fredric March - Rev. William Spence
- Beulah Bondi - Mrs. Lydia Sandow
- Elisabeth Fraser - Eileen Spence at eighteen
- Laura Hope Crewes - Mrs. Thurston
- Moroni Olsen - Dr. John Romer
- Jerome Cowan - Dr. Horrigan
- Nana Bryant - Mrs. Morris
- Casey Johnson - Fraser Spence at 10
- Dick Elliott - Casper Cullenbaugh
- Ann Edmonds - Bride
- Milt Kibbee - Alf McAfee
- Paula Trueman - Miss Peabody
- Mary Field - Louella Digby
- Virginia Brissac - Mrs. Jellison
- Dorothy Vaughan - Mrs. Erlich
- Clara Blandick - Mrs. Watkins
- Harlan Briggs - McFarland, the Pharmacist
- Herbert Heywood - Shopkeeper
- Martha Scott - Hope Morris Spence
- Gene Lockhart - Preston Thurston
- Harry Davenport - Elias Samson
- Grant Mitchell - Clayton Potter
- Frankie Thomas - Hartzell Spence, seventeen
- Ernest Cossart - John Morris
- Carlotta Jelm - Eileen Spence at 11
- Roscoe Ates - George Reynolds
- Fred Kelsey - Conductor
- Olin Howland - Zeke Harris
- Charles Halton - Haskins
- Frank Mayo - Drummer
- Hobart Bosworth - Richard Hardy Case
- Sarah Edwards - Mrs. Spicer
- Gig Young - Groom
- Charlotte Treadway - Ella Hodges
- Vera Lewis - Mrs. Simpson
- Tempe Piggott - Mrs. Dibble
- Director(s):
- Irving Rapper
- Writer(s):
- Casey Robinson
- Producer(s):
- Robert Lord, Irving Rapper, Hal B. Wallis
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