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The Male Animal is a 1942 American comedy-drama film produced by Warner Bros., starring Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland and Joan Leslie. [2][3] The film was based on a hit 1940 Broadway play of the same name written by James Thurber and Elliott Nugent.
The Male Animal: Directed by Elliott Nugent. With Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson. A college English teacher suddenly finds himself the center of a free-speech debate on campus.
- (1.4K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Elliott Nugent
- 1942-04-04
Boffo homecoming pep rally, professor Tommy (Henry Fonda) squirming as booster Keller (Eugene Pallette) announces halfback Wally (Don DeFore), his hero, ex-star Joe (Jack Carson), also ex-boyfriend to ex-cheerleader and Tommy's wife Ellen (Olivia de Havilland), in The Male Animal, 1942.
- Elliott Nugent, Art Lueker
- Henry Fonda
A college English teacher suddenly finds himself the center of a free-speech debate on campus. It's Homecoming weekend at Midwestern University, the weekend which will culminate with the big game between Midwestern and Michigan.
On the weekend of the big football game at a large Midwestern university, English professor Tommy Turner (Henry Fonda) unexpectedly gets embroiled in a free-speech controversy.
- (10)
- Elliott Nugent
- Comedy
- Henry Fonda
Overview. The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class.
May 5, 2009 · The Male Animal is arguably one of the BEST screwball comedies ever made. Henry Fonda and Olivia DeHavilland alongside such greats as Jack Carson and Hattie MacDaniel. Just a tour da farce when Fonda, a nerdy English professor decides to read a controversial excerpt to his class by a Communist author.
- DVD
