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The Magnificent Dope

07/01/1942

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1hr 23min

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Comedy

Meet the All-American Jerk...Ladies' Man De Luxe!

STORY

Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Henry Fonda
  • Lynn Bari
  • Don Ameche
  • Edward Everett Horton
  • George Barbier

    Directors

  • Walter Lang
  • George Seaton

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • 20th Century Fox

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Henry Fonda

Thadeus Winship 'Tad' Page

Lynn Bari

Claire Harris

Don Ameche

Dwight Dawson

Edward Everett Horton

Horace Hunter

George Barbier

James Roger Barker

Frank Orth

Messenger

Roseanne Murray

Dawson's Secretary

Marietta Canty

Jenny

Hobart Cavanaugh

Albert Gowdy

Hal K. Dawson

Charlie

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