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Cecil Kellaway
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In the middle of a bad drought, Dad Hayseed (Cecil Kellaway) and his large family host a wealthy city family, the Townleighs, when Mary Townleigh (Shirley Dale) gets lost briefly in the bush. To celebrate the marriage of Joe Hayseed (Tal Ordell) and his sweetheart Pansy Regan (Molly Raynor), the Hayseeds visit Sydney to stay with their new friends. Mary Townleigh’s romance develops with an exiled Englishman, John Manners (Arthur Clarke), who lives near the Hayseeds. A cable from England makes serious allegations against Manners, but Dad Hayseed defends his friend’s reputation, until the truth clears his name.
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Two witches in colonial Salem, Jennifer (Veronica Lake) and her father Daniel (Cecil Kellaway), are burned at the stake after being denounced by Puritan Jonathan Wooley (Fredric March) and their ashes buried beneath a tree to imprison their evil spirits. In revenge, Jennifer curses Wooley and all his male descendants - they are doomed to always marry the wrong person.
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Jane Withers, 20th Century-Fox's second-feature Shirley Temple, plays the favorite daughter of a wealthy man (Cecil Kellaway). Real-life debutante Cobina Wright Jr. plays Jane's snobbish sister, who is pushed into society by her mother (Katherine Alexander). The hostility between the down-to-earth dad and the snooty mom is mirrored by the rivalry between Withers and Wright. Eventually... the kids make up, then set to work on reuniting their parents. Small Town Deb represents the first time that child actress Jane Withers was permitted to play a character closer to her own age (she was 16 and looked it). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Most of the film centres on comedy, and that is carried mostly by Cecil Kellaway’s lovely performance as the slow-talking but wise Dad Hayseed. Kellaway makes a lot more of the character than one expects, shading in Dad’s prickly nature, his disappointment with his dopey set of children, but ... his overwhelming generosity of spirit and stoic resolve against adversity. He has a couple of rousing speeches, calculated to appeal to nationalistic self-delusion, but Kellaway manages to convey a fundamental decency in the character that’s much more poignant than words.
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Cecil Kellaway movies DVDs filmography available to buy at CDUniverse are listed below. Information on films includes: other actor and actress, star cast and crew information, reviews, director, photo of cover art, product pics and more.
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Kellaway died in 1973, in Hollywood, California at the age of 79, and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. He received two Best Supporting Actor nominations, for The Luck of the Irish and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Edmund Gwenn, whose real name was Kellaway, was his cousin.
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