The Great Man’s Lady (1942)

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a ‘girl biographer’. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star “ages” 80 years.
William A. Wellman, Clem Jones
Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy, K.T. Stevens, Thurston Hall, Lloyd Corrigan, Etta McDaniel, William B. Davidson, Lillian Yarbo, Helen Lynd, Mary Treen, Lucien Littlefield, John Hamilton, Fred ‘Snowflake’ Toones, George Irving, Charles Lane, Theodore von Eltz, Damian O’Flynn, Pat O’Malley, Frank M. Thomas, Irving Bacon, Hank Bell, Monte Blue, Horace B. Carpenter, George Chandler, David Clyde, Tom Coleman, Tex Cooper, Tex Driscoll, Fern Emmett, Sam Harris, G. P. Huntley, Jack Kenny, Ethan Laidlaw, Larry Lawson, Buck Mack, Lee Moore, Ottola Nesmith, Anna Q. Nilsson, Milton Parsons, Bob Perry, Lee Phelps, Tex Phelps, John Roy, Eleanor Stewart, Dorothy Vernon, Charles Williams
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