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Parnell is a american film of genre Drama directed by John M. Stahl released in USA on 4 june 1937 with Clark Gable
Parnell (1937)
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Add to a movie listParnell is a 1937 biographical film released by MGM starring Clark Gable as Charles Stewart Parnell, the famous Irish politician. It is considered Gable's worst film, and is classified in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
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Un épisode de la vie de Charles Stewart Parnell, le roi sans couronne, depuis sa lutte, dès 1880, pour soustraire l'Irlande au joug anglais, jusqu'à sa mort. Le scénario met l'accent sur sa relation avec Katie O'Shea, femme mariée, qui va provoquer un scandale.Actors
Clark Gable
(Charles Stewart Parnell)
Myrna Loy
(Katie O'Shea)
Edna May Oliver
(Aunt Ben Wood)
Edmund Gwenn
(Henry Campbell)
Donald Crisp
(Michael Davitt)
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