The Great Man's Lady
Western
Drama
Romance
She's his secret woman!
In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.
1941-10-31
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Cast
Director
William A. Wellman
Barbara Stanwyck as Hannah Sempler Hoyt
Joel McCrea as Mr. Sempler
Brian Donlevy as Steely Edwards
K.T. Stevens as Girl Biographer
Thurston Hall as Mr. Sempler
Lloyd Corrigan as Mr. Cadwallader
Etta McDaniel as Delilah
William B. Davidson as Sen. Knobs
Lillian Yarbo as Mandy
Helen Lynd as Bettina
Mary Treen as Persis
Lucien Littlefield as City Editor
John Hamilton as Sen. Grant
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones as Pogey
George Irving as Dr. Adams (uncredited)
Charles Lane as Pierce (uncredited)
Theodore von Eltz as Hank Allen (uncredited)
Damian O'Flynn as Burns (uncredited)
Pat O'Malley as Officer Murphy (uncredited)
Frank M. Thomas as Frisbee
Irving Bacon as Parson
Hank Bell as Man #1, Hoyt City
Monte Blue as Man #2, Hoyt City
Horace B. Carpenter as Man in Saloon
George Chandler as Forbes
David Clyde as Bartender
Tex Driscoll as Wagon Train Member
Fern Emmett as City Editor's Secretary
G.P. Huntley as Quentin
Jack Kenny as Man in Saloon
Ethan Laidlaw as Man in Saloon
Lee Moore as Gambler
Ottola Nesmith as Mrs. Frisbee
Anna Q. Nilsson as Paula Wales
Milton Parsons as Foreman
Lee Phelps as Chairman
Tex Phelps as Townsman
Eleanor Stewart as Miss Frisbee
Dorothy Vernon as Spectator at Dedication
Charles Williams as Assayer