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The Male Animal is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Elliott Nugent released in USA on 4 april 1942 with Henry Fonda
The Male Animal (1942)
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Add to a movie listThe Male Animal is a 1942 American comedy-drama film, produced by Warner Bros., starring Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland and Joan Leslie.
The film was based on a hit 1940 Broadway play of the same name written by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent. The screenplay was written by Stephen Morehouse Avery, Julius J. Epstein, and Philip G. Epstein, based on Nugent and Thurber's play. The film was also directed by Elliott Nugent.
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Tommy Turner (Henry Fonda) is an English teacher at football-crazed Midwestern University. Although he is uninvolved with the politics of the day, Tommy suddenly finds himself the center of a free-speech debate on campus. An editorial in a student magazine praises him for planning to read Bartolomeo Vanzetti's sentencing statement to his class as an example of eloquent composition, even in broken English composed by a non-professional.Actors
Henry Fonda
(Tommy Turner)
Olivia de Havilland
(Ellen Turner)
Joan Leslie
(Patricia Stanley)
Jack Carson
(Joe Ferguson)
Eugene Pallette
(Ed Keller)
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