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Life Begins at Forty (1935 film)

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Genre
  
Comedy

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

7/10
IMDb

Director
  
George Marshall

Story by
  
Walter B. Pitkin

Language
  
English

Life Begins at Forty (1935 film) movie poster
Writer
  
Walter B. Pitkin
,
Lamar Trotti
,
Robert Quillen
,
William M. Conselman
,
Dudley Nichols

Release date
  
March 22, 1935

Screenplay
  
Dudley Nichols, Robert Quillen, Lamar Trotti, William Conselman

Cast
  
Will Rogers
(Keneshaw H. Clark),
Richard Cromwell
(Lee Austin),
George Barbier
(Col. Joseph Abercrombie),
Rochelle Hudson
(Adele Anderson),
Jane Darwell
(Ida Harris),
Slim Summerville
(T. Watterson Meriwether)

Similar movies
  
Will Rogers and others appear in Life Begins at Forty and Steamboat Round the Bend

A newsman (Will Rogers) bests a hard-nosed banker and clears a youth (Richard Cromwell) framed for bank robbery.

Contents

Life Begins at Forty is a 1935 black-and-white film starring Will Rogers and Richard Cromwell. It is based on the non-fiction self-help book Life Begins at 40 by Walter B. Pitkin.

A small-town newspaper publisher finds himself in opposition to the local banker on the return to town of a lad jailed possibly wrongly for a theft from the bank.

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Cast

  • Will Rogers as Kenesaw H. Clark
  • Richard Cromwell as Lee Austin
  • George Barbier as Col. Joseph Abercrombie
  • Rochelle Hudson as Adele Anderson
  • Jane Darwell as Ida Harris
  • Slim Summerville as T. Watterson Meriwether
  • Sterling Holloway as Chris
  • Thomas Beck as Joe Abercrombie
  • Roger Imhof as Pappy Smithers
  • Charles Sellon as Tom Cotton
  • John Bradford as Wally Stevens
  • Ruth Gillette as Mrs. Cotton
  • References

    Life Begins at Forty (1935 film) Wikipedia
    Life Begins at Forty (1935 film) IMDbLife Begins at Forty (1935 film) Rotten TomatoesLife Begins at Forty (1935 film) themoviedb.org