The Great Gildersleeve (film)

1942 film directed by Gordon Douglas

The Great Gildersleeve
Directed by	Gordon Douglas William Dorfman (assistant)
Written by	Jack Townley Julien Josephson
Produced by	Herman Schlom
Starring	Harold Peary Jane Darwell
Cinematography	Frank Redman
Edited by	John Lockert
Music by	Constantin Bakaleinikoff
Production company	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	December 17, 1942 (1942-12-17)
Running time	62 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Great Gildersleeve is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. Based on the popular NBC radio series The Great Gildersleeve created by Leonard L. Levinson, which ran from 1941 to 1950, this is the first of four films in the Gildersleeve series produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jack Townley and Julien Josephson, and the film stars Harold Peary and Jane Darwell. Other films in the series are Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943), Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943) and Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944).

Plot summary

Throckmorton P Gildersleeve is amorously pursued by the sister of his rival in town, Judge Horace Hooker. Also, Gildersleeve's niece and nephew concoct a campaign to make him the most popular man in town so the judge won't force the kids to become wards of the court if Gildersleeve doesn't get married and provide the children with a mother.

Cast

Harold Peary as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve
Jane Darwell as Aunt Emma Forrester
Nancy Gates as Marjorie Forrester
Charles Arnt as Judge Horace Hooker
Freddie Mercer as Leroy Forrester
Thurston Hall as Governor John Stafford
Lillian Randolph as Birdie Lee Calkins
Mary Field as Amelia Hooker
George Carleton as Frank Powers
George Chandler as Messenger Boy

References

"The Great Gildersleeve: Detail View". American Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 29, 2014. Retrieved September 17, 2014.

External links

The Great Gildersleeve at IMDb
The Great Gildersleeve at the TCM Movie Database
The Great Gildersleeve at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

v t e Films directed by Gordon Douglas
1930s	General Spanky (1936) Zenobia (1939)
1940s	Saps at Sea (1940) Broadway Limited (1941) The Great Gildersleeve (1942) Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943) Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943) A Night of Adventure (1944) Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944) Girl Rush (1944) The Falcon in Hollywood (1944) Zombies on Broadway (1945) First Yank into Tokyo (1945) Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946) San Quentin (1946) If You Knew Susie (1948) Walk a Crooked Mile (1948) The Doolins of Oklahoma (1949) Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
1950s	The Nevadan (1950) Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950) Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) Between Midnight and Dawn (1950) The Great Missouri Raid (1951) Only the Valiant (1951) I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) Come Fill the Cup (1951) Mara Maru (1952) The Iron Mistress (1952) She's Back on Broadway (1953) The Charge at Feather River (1953) So This Is Love (1953) Them! (1954) Young at Heart (1954) The McConnell Story (1955) Sincerely Yours (1955) Santiago (1956) The Big Land (1957) Bombers B-52 (1957) Fort Dobbs (1958) The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958) Up Periscope (1959) Yellowstone Kelly (1959)
1960s	The Sins of Rachel Cade (1961) Gold of the Seven Saints (1961) Claudelle Inglish (1961) Follow That Dream (1962) Call Me Bwana (1963) Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) Rio Conchos (1964) Sylvia (1965) Harlow (1965) Stagecoach (1966) Way...Way Out (1966) In Like Flint (1967) Chuka (1967) Tony Rome (1967) The Detective (1968) Lady in Cement (1968)
1970s	Skullduggery (1970) They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) Barquero (1970) Skin Game (1971, uncredited) Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973) Nevada Smith (1975) Viva Knievel! (1977)

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