Word: fredric
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Foot in Heaven (Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart; TIME...
...Foot in Heaven (Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart; TIME...
...Foot in Heaven (Warner). They have just put the "old preacher" on the morning local when the Rev. William Spence (Fredric March) and his pretty bride (Martha Scott) arrive to take over their first parish. To the ardent young pastor, brimful of Methodism, the whistle-stop town of Laketon, Iowa (circa 1904) looks ripe for good works. To his comfortably nurtured, loving wife, its rutted streets, clapboard buildings, grass-roots manners seem as meager as her husband's yearly salary...
...good script (Casey Robinson), slick production (Robert Lord) and direction (Irving Rapper), with a big and superior cast. It also has the one essential ingredient it had to have: the right man to play Pastor Spence. Backed up by the superbly restrained performance of delicate, big-eyed Martha Scott, Fredric March poses, postures, struts his Shakespearean dignity to his heart's sweet content. It is a first-rate job-possibly because in many a good minister there is a forgivable touch of theatrics...
...your review of the picture, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in the Sept. 1 issue, you say there have been two previous cinema versions of this famous shocker, one by John Barrymore in 1920 and the second one by Fredric March in 1931. Please permit me to correct you; there was still another version, which as a small boy I saw in 1912 or 1913. The picture made such an impression on me, resulting in several nightmares, that I still have vivid recollections of it; the name of the actor who portrayed the dual role was King Baggot...