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Our Leading Citizen
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Our Leading Citizen
August 23, 1939
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Cast (52)
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Bob Burns
Lem Schofield
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Susan Hayward
Judith Schofield
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Joseph Allen
Clay Clinton
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Elizabeth Patterson
Aunt Tillie
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Charles Bickford
Shep Muir
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Gene Lockhart
J.T. Tapley
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Kathleen Lockhart
Mrs. Barker
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Otto Hoffman
Mr. Stoney
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Clarence Kolb
Jim Hanna
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Paul Guilfoyle
Jerry Peters
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Fay Helm
Tonia
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Hattie Noel
Druscilla
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Kathryn Sheldon
Miss Swan
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Monte Blue
Frank
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Jim Kelso
Chief of Police
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Harry C. Bradley
Director
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Frances Morris
Maid
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Thomas Louden
Frederick the Butler
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Olaf Hytten
Charles, the Butler
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Phil Dunham
Janitor
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Gus Glassmire
Doctor
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Max Wagner
Workman
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Arthur Arlington
Delegate
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Heinie Conklin
Porter
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Nell Craig
Bridge Player
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Thomas A. Curran
Member
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Sidney D'Albrook
Workman
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Helen Dickson
Member
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Florence Dudley
Phone Operator
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Galan Galt
Workman
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Ethyl May Halls
Member
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Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian
Workman
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Russell Hicks
Chairman
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Paul Kruger
Workman
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Peggy Leon
Bridge Player
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George Magrill
Workman
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Wally Maher
Convention Clerk
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Gertrude Messinger
Phone Operator
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Frank O'Connor
Member
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Broderick O'Farrell
Member
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Jack Richardson
Member
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Cyril Ring
Delegate
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Ruth Robinson
Mrs. Hanna
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Syd Saylor
Sam
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C.L. Sherwood
Porter
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Harry Smiley
Member
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Harry Stafford
Member
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Larry Steers
Delegate
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Hayden Stevenson
Member
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Harry Tenbrook
Workman
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Jane Webb
Phone Operator
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Lillian West
Bridge Player
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Directing
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Alfred Santell
Director
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Russell Mathews
Assistant Director
Writing
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Jack Moffitt
Screenplay
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Irvin S. Cobb
Story
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William LeBaron
Executive Producer
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George M. Arthur
Producer
Sound
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Gerard Carbonara
Original Music Composer
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Hans Dreier
Art Direction
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Roland Anderson
Art Direction
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Victor Milner
Director of Photography
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Hugh Bennett
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