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Dean Jagger
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"Peter Finch and Dean Jagger are the only males in the cast of any stature. Finch, as an intelligent, attractive agnostic, conveys a romantic attachment for Hepburn, but in terms that can give no offense. Jagger is Hepburn's perturbed loving father but contributes a valuable facet on the story.
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An Ohio farm boy, "Dean Jagger" dropped out of school several times before attending Wabash College. He was a schoolteacher for several years before opting to study acting at Chicago's Lyceum Art Conservatory. By the time he made his first film in 1929, Jagger had worked in stock, vaudeville and radio. At first, Hollywood attempted to turn Jagger into a standard leading man, fitting the prematurely balding actor with a lavish wig and changing his name to Jeffrey Dean. It wasn't long before the studios realized that Jagger's true calling was as a character actor. One of his few starring roles after 1940 was as the title character in "Brigham Young, Frontiersman"--though top billing went to "Tyrone Power", cast as a fictional Mormon follower.
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Born Ira Dean Jagger in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Jagger made his film debut in The Woman from Hell (1929) with Mary Astor. He became a successful character actor, without becoming a major star, and appeared in almost 100 films in a career that lasted until shortly before his death.
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After the death of the Mormon's founding leader Joseph Smith (Vincent Price), Brigham Young (Dean Jagger) sets out to lead his people westward to Utah, a "promised land" where they can escape religious persecution. But the trip's challenges are more than just man versus untamed land, as trail scout Jonathan Kent (Tyron Power) discovers when he falls in love with a non-Mormon (Linda Darnell) in this interesting film about the Mormon settling of Salt Lake City.
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The film starred Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman and Leo McKern. It was written by Jimmy Sangster, and was originally to have been directed by Joseph Losey (working under the name Joseph Walton). Losey was an American director who had moved to the UK after being placed on the Hollywood blacklist. Although Losey did begin shooting the film and some of his footage is included in the final cut, when star Dean Jagger arrived on set he refused to work with a suspected Communist sympathiser. Losey was replaced by Leslie Norman, officially for health reasons.
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Dean Jagger stars as Ed Lindsay, a cranky middle-aged man living in a boarding house with several other old-timers, including his former fiancée Vinnie Brown (Carmen Mathews). Fed up with television, Ed squirrels himself away in his room, where he begins tooling around with the antique radio he's found in the cellar. Before long, he is receiving broadcasts from the 1930s and 1940s -- live broadcasts, not reruns.
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