''Gentle Julia'' is a 1936 American
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
John G. Blystone and starring
Jane Withers
Jane Withers (April 12, 1926 – August 7, 2021) was an American actress and children's radio show host. She became one of the most popular child stars in Hollywood in the 1930s and early 1940s, with her films ranking in the top ten list for ...
,
Tom Brown and
Marsha Hunt.
[Goble p.453] It is an adaptation of the 1922
novel of the same title by
Booth Tarkington
Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels '' The Magnificent Ambersons'' (1918) and '' Alice Adams'' (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitz ...
.
Cast
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Jane Withers
Jane Withers (April 12, 1926 – August 7, 2021) was an American actress and children's radio show host. She became one of the most popular child stars in Hollywood in the 1930s and early 1940s, with her films ranking in the top ten list for ...
as Florence Atwater
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Tom Brown as Noble Dill
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Marsha Hunt as Julia Atwater
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Jackie Searl as Herbert Livingston Atwater
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Francis Ford as Tubbs, Fish Peddler
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George Meeker
George Meeker (March 5, 1904 – August 19, 1984) was an American character film and Broadway actor.
A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Meeker made several films such as ''Crime, Inc.'' (1945) and ''A Thief in the Dark'' (1 ...
as Crum
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Maurice Murphy as Newland Sanders
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Harry Holman
Harry James Holman (March 15, 1862 – May 3, 1947) was an American character actor. He appeared in approximately 130 films between 1923 and 1947.
Biography
Born in Conway, Missouri, Holman dropped out of school in the ninth grade an ...
as Grandpa Atwater
* Myra Marsh as Mrs. Atwater
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Hattie McDaniel
Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893October 26, 1952) was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in ''Gone with the Wind (film), Gone with the Wind'' (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, ...
as Kitty Silvers
* Jackie Hughes as Henry Rooter
* Eddie Buzard as Wallie Torbin
*
Frank Sully
Francis Thomas Sullivan (June 17, 1908 December 17, 1975), known professionally as Frank Sully, was an American film actor. He appeared in over 240 films between 1934 and 1968. Today's audiences know him best as the dumb detective in the ''Bost ...
as Mr. Toms
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Mary Alden
Mary Maguire Alden (June 18, 1883 – July 2, 1946) was an American motion picture and stage actress. She was one of the first Broadway actresses to work in Hollywood.
Life
Alden was born in New York City on June 18, 1883. She performed on Br ...
as Aunt
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Lynn Bari
Lynn Bari (born Marjorie Schuyler Fisher, December 18, 1919 – November 20, 1989) was a film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 films for 20th Century Fox, from the early 1930s through the 1940s.
...
as Young Lady Outside Church / Jealous Girl at Dance
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Mary Carr
Mary Carr (née Kenevan; March 14, 1874 – June 24, 1973), was an American film actress and was married to the actor William Carr. She appeared in more than 140 films between 1915 and 1956. She was given some of filmdoms plum mother roles in ...
as Old Lady at Dance
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Harvey Clark as Fat Man with Umbrella
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John Dilson as Uncle
* Grace Goodall as Aunt
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Roger Gray as Policeman
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Arthur Hoyt
Arthur Hoyt (March 19, 1874 – January 4, 1953) was an American film character actor who appeared in more than 275 films in his 34-year film career, about a third of them silent films.
Career
Born in Georgetown, Colorado, in 1874, Hoyt mad ...
as Mr. Wainwright - Justice of the Peace
*
Marcia Mae Jones
Marcia Mae Jones (August 1, 1924 – September 2, 2007) was an American film and television actress whose prolific career spanned 57 years.
Early years
Jones was the youngest of four children born to actress Freda Jones. All three of her ...
as Patty Fairchild
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Jane Keckley
Jane Keckley (September 10, 1876 – August 14, 1963) was an American actress of the silent and sound film eras.
Biography
Keckley was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and went to school there and in Georgia.
Before she acted in films, Kec ...
as Neighbor at Dance
* Frederick Lee in a minor role
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Tom Ricketts
Thomas B. Ricketts (15 January 1853 – 19 January 1939) was an English-born American stage actor, stage and motion picture, film actor and film director, director who was a pioneer in the film industry. He portrayed Ebenezer Scrooge in the fi ...
as Old Man in Church / at Dance
*
Cyril Ring
Cyril Ring (December 5, 1892July 17, 1967) was an American film actor. He began his career in silent films in 1921. By the time of his final performance in 1951, he had appeared in over 350 films, nearly all of them in small and/or uncredited bit ...
as Neighbor at Dance
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Edwin Stanley as Mr. Atwater
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Paul Stanton as Minister
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Landers Stevens
John Landers Stevens (1877–1940) was an American stage and film actor. A character actor he appeared in prominent screen roles in the early 1920s before switching to smaller supporting parts, often authority figures, in the following decade. ...
as Uncle
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Maidel Turner
Maidel Turner (May 12, 1888 – April 12, 1953) was an American movie actress featured in almost 60 films between 1913 and 1951, beginning as the leading lady of ''The Angel of the Slums'' (1913) and becoming a comical character actress as she a ...
as Justice's Wife
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Hilda Vaughn
Hilda Vaughn (December 27, 1898 – December 28, 1957) was an American actress of the stage, film, radio, and television.
Early years
Hilda Weiller Strouse, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eli Strouse, Vaughn attended Vassar College and the Ame ...
as Telephone Operator
* Lois Verner as Choir Member
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Niles Welch
Niles Eugene Welch (July 29, 1888 – November 21, 1976) was an American performer on Broadway, and a leading man in a number of silent and early talking motion pictures from the early 1910s through the 1930s.
Early life
A native of Hartfor ...
as Book Salesman
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Florence Wix
Florence Wix (16 May 1883 – 23 November 1956) was an English-born American character actress who worked from the 1920s in silent films through sound films of the 1950s.
Biography
Born on 16 May 1883, in Hertfordshire in England, Wix woul ...
as Aunt Fannie
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
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1936 films
1936 drama films
American drama films
Films based on works by Booth Tarkington
Films directed by John G. Blystone
20th Century Fox films
American black-and-white films
Films produced by Sol M. Wurtzel
Films with screenplays by Lamar Trotti
Films scored by Samuel Kaylin
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
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