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Released February 11, 1938
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
MGM
103.2 min. (Feature Film)

Ted Healy is listed in the production records for this film, but he does not appear in it. The production pre-dated his death, so it appears likely that he did film scenes, but they were eventually edited out.

Reverend Wilkins (Walter Huston) moves his family from a well-to-do life in Maryland, to a parish in the impoverished 1840s community of Pine Hill OH. His devoted wife (Beulah Bondi) accepts their new lot in life, in spite of a community of elders who frequently take advantage of their pastor. Young son Jason (Gene Reynolds) is resentful and ungrateful, frequently clashing with his father.

Ten years later, Jason (James Stewart) leaves home for Baltimore to study medicine. He always presumes that his parents will provide his needs, in spite of the additional hardships it places on them. Personal tragedy and the Civil War do nothing to change his ways, as he continues his own life, oblivious of the heartbreak he's left behind in Pine Hill.

As late as January 26, 1938, in that day's issue of Variety, Ted Healy's name was still appearing in cast news released by MGM.

Beulah Bondi received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress as 'Mrs. Wilkins.' Ms. Bondi seemingly made a career playing Jimmy Stewart's mother, in this film as well as MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939), VIVACIOUS LADY (1938), THE JIMMY STEWART SHOW (NBC 1971), and most notably as 'Ma Bailey' in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946).

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OF HUMAN HEARTS on IMDb

James Stewart
Jason Wilkins

Walter Huston
Rev. Ethan Wilkins

Beulah Bondi
Mary Wilkins

Gene Reynolds
Jason Wilkins, as a boy

Guy Kibbee
George Ames

Charles Coburn
Dr. Charles Shingle

Ann Rutherford
Annie Hawks

Leatrice Joy Gilbert
Annie Hawks, as a child

Sterling Holloway
Chauncey Ames

Charles Peck
Chauncey Ames, as a child

Robert McWade
Dr. Lupus Crumm

John Carradine
President Abraham Lincoln

Clem Bevans
Elder Massey

Rosina Galli
Mrs. Ardsley

Anne O'Neal
Mrs. Hawks

Leona Roberts
Sister Clark

Brenda Fowler
Mrs. Ames

Arthur Aylesworth
Rufus Inchpin

Esther Dale
Mrs. Cantwell

Morgan Wallace
Dr. Crandall

Minor Watson
Captain Griggs

Frank McGlynn Jr.
Laughing man in church

Ward Bond
Laughing man in church

Jules Cowles
Churchgoer

Ralph Bushman
Churchgoer

Stanley Fields
Horse owner

Guy Bates Post
Horse buyer

William Stack
Haberdasher

Frank Reicher
Union officer

Willard Robertson
Recruiting officer

Joseph Young
Attendant

Charles Trowbridge
Doctor attending Capt. Griggs

Ted Healy
scene deleted


Conrad Richter
Screenplay

Bradbury Foote
Screenplay

Honore Morrow
Original Story

Clyde De Vinna
Photography

Frank E. Hull
Film Editor

Cedric Gibbons
Art Director

Edwin B. Willis
Associate Art Director

Harry Oliver
Associate Art Director

Douglas Shearer
Recording Director

Herbert Stothart
Musical Score

Jack Dawn
Makeup

Joe Norin
Makeup

Dolly Tree
Wardrobe

Edward Woehler
Assistant Director

Al Shenberg
Assistant Director

E. Mason Hopper
Assistant Director

Slavko Vorkapich
Montage Effects

Charles Whittaker
Technical Advisor


















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