A political drama can describe a play , film or TV program that has a political component, whether reflecting the author's political opinion, or describing a politician or series of political events.
65-441: My Son John is a 1952 American political drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Helen Hayes , Van Heflin , Robert Walker and Dean Jagger . Walker plays the title character, a middle-class college graduate whom his parents suspect may be a communist spy. The strongly anticommunist film, produced during the height of McCarthyism , received an Oscar nomination for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story . The nomination
130-546: A Daytime Emmy award for a guest appearance in the religious series This Is the Life . His last role was as Dr. David Domedion in the St. Elsewhere season-three finale "Cheers" in 1985. Dean Jagger has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1523 Vine Street for his contribution to motion pictures. When Jagger tried to marry his second wife, Gloria Ling, in 1947, they were denied
195-458: A legal drama . There have been notables films that have been labeled as political dramas such as Thirteen Days and The Ides of March . A famous literary political drama which later made the transition to film was Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men . Dean Jagger Dean Jagger (November 7, 1903 – February 5, 1991) was an American film, stage, and television actor who won
260-553: A Great Life (1935), Woman Trap (1936), and 13 Hours by Air (1936). Victor Halperin borrowed him to play the lead role in Revolt of the Zombies (1936). He went to 20th Century Fox for Pepper (1936) and Star for a Night (1936), then to MGM for Under Cover of Night (1937). Jagger did Woman in Distress (1937) at Columbia, and Dangerous Number (1937) and Song of
325-568: A car crash with John's college friend Stedman. Dan questions John's loyalty after he mocks his anticommunist speech to the Legion and tries to rewrite it. After Dan accuses him of being a communist and threatens him, John assures Lucille of his loyalty by swearing on her Bible, but Dan refuses to believe his son, and after an argument about the veracity of the Bible beats him and tears his trousers. The next morning, John asks Lucille to retrieve his trousers from
390-613: A feature that ultimately never was released. He returned to New York City. Jagger's big career break came when cast in a lead role in the play Tobacco Road in 1933. The play was a huge hit and ran until 1941, though Jagger left the show in 1934 to appear in They Shall Not Die , which only ran 62 performances. In April 1934, Jagger signed a contract with Paramount, for which he made You Belong to Me (1934) with Lee Tracy , then College Rhythm (1934) with Jack Oakie , Behold My Wife! (1934) with Sylvia Sidney , Wings in
455-633: A lead role in the strongly anti-communist film My Son John (1952) at Paramount. He was in Denver and Rio Grande (1952), again with Haskin and O'Brien, and episodes of Gulf Playhouse , Lux Video Theatre , Cavalcade of America , Schlitz Playhouse , and Studio 57 . He appeared in the biblical epic The Robe (1953) as the weaver Justus of Cana, and was in Private Hell 36 (1954). He played retired Army Major General Tom Waverly honored by Bob Wallace ( Bing Crosby ) and Phil Davis ( Danny Kaye ) in
520-543: A lot of things including atheism . The mother knows only two books–her Bible and her cookbook. But who's brighter in the end-- the mother or the son? It's such a fragile little point, but so is nuclear fission . It's not bad sometimes to have a small point and get the most out of it. A scene with Van Heflin delivering the speech at the end of the film was shot at the Wilshire-Ebell Theater in Los Angeles, but
585-591: A marriage license in California due to a state law "forbidding unions between Caucasians and Mongolians [sic]"; Ling's father had been born in China. Within two days, the couple had flown to Albuquerque, New Mexico , and were married under "New Mexico's more liberal statute." In later life, Jagger suffered from heart disease. He died in his sleep in Santa Monica, California. He was 87. He was survived by his third wife, Etta,
650-488: A political drama, especially in its critically acclaimed second season and fifth season . Races for political office, including state's attorney , governor , and even a Presidential run, move in and out of the show's narrative and the story of its main character, Alicia Florrick. However, Alicia's primary profession as a litigator for the most part takes precedence in the narrative, and so the show more often focuses on her cases and related office politics, making it primarily
715-572: A production of Shepherd of the Hills on stage in Chicago. This experience resulted in him deciding to try his luck in New York City. He joined a stock company as Spencer Tracy 's replacement. He performed in vaudeville , on the radio and on stage, making his Broadway debut in 1925 in a bit part in a George M. Cohan production. He was in a play Remote Control in 1928. Jagger visited Los Angeles on
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#1732858099459780-456: A recording of his speech to be played along with a shot of Walker from Alfred Hitchcock 's Strangers on a Train for the death scene. The shots of the audience from the originally filmed ending were used in the final film, with new shots of the recording playing from an empty lectern. Filming took place in Washington, D.C., Manassas, Virginia and Hollywood. The picture was not a success at
845-468: A ritualistic and social significance that enhanced the relevance of the political issues being examined. Shakespeare is an author of political theatre according to some academic scholars, who observe that his history plays examine the machinations of personal drives and passions determining political activity and that many of the tragedies such as King Lear and Macbeth dramatize political leadership and complexity subterfuges of human beings driven by
910-827: A short run. He had the lead role in 'C'-Man (1949). Jagger received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Twelve O'Clock High (1949), made at Fox and directed by Henry King. In the film, he played the World War I veteran, middle-aged adjutant Major/Lt. Col. Harvey Stovall, who acts as an advisor to the commander, General Savage ( Gregory Peck ). Jagger stayed a supporting actor, though, appearing in Sierra (1950) with Audie Murphy at Universal, Dark City (1950) for Hal Wallis, Rawhide (1951) with Hathaway and Power at Fox, and Warpath (1951) at Paramount with Edmond O'Brien and directed by Byron Haskin . Jagger had
975-445: A theatre 'of, by, and for the people'. In this guise, political theatre has developed within the civil societies under oppressive governments as a means of actual underground communication and the spreading of critical thought. Following the war there was an influx of political theatre, as people needed to discuss the losses of the war. Often political theatre has been used to promote specific political theories or ideals, for example in
1040-529: A vaudeville show with Irene Rich . While there, he made his film debut in The Woman from Hell (1929) with Mary Astor . "My good notices," he later recalled, "had a reverse effect on the industry, which was suddenly revolutionized by sound pictures. With the one film to my credit, I was considered part of that group of untouchables – silent film stars." He followed it with Handcuffed (1929). Jagger decided to move into film production, helping raise money to make
1105-446: Is killed by communist agents before he can do so, but he tells Stedman that he left a tape-recorded confession, which Stedman plays at his college's commencement exercises. Later at church, Dan consoles a distraught Lucille, saying that John's actions will eventually be forgotten but that his words will be remembered. The film was based on an idea by Leo McCarey and developed into a script by John Lee Mahin . Paramount built interest in
1170-588: Is not just intellectual, but "an unathletic, sexually ambiguous intellectual," both "sullen" and "slick." Others have interpreted John's character as homosexual . In response to negative reviews from the New York critics, the Catholic Press Institute unanimously endorsed a resolution praising the film and Senator Karl Mundt entered a statement into the Congressional Record calling it "undoubtedly
1235-508: The Chicago Reader included the film in his unranked list of the best American films not included on the AFI Top 100 . Patricia Bosworth , writing about a festival of blacklist-era films in 1992, characterized My Son John as "hysterical" and "the anti-Communist movie to end all anti-Communist movies." Some have surmised that McCarey had lost his hallmark deep sympathy for his characters by
1300-648: The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Henry King 's Twelve O'Clock High (1949). Dean Jeffries Jagger (or Dean Ida Jagger) was born in Columbus Grove or Lima, Ohio . Growing up on a farm, he wanted to act, and practiced oratory on cows while working. He later won several oratory competitions. At age 14, he worked as an orderly at a sanatorium. He dropped out of school several times before finally attending Wabash College . While there he
1365-657: The United Kingdom , is an example of a specific kind of political theatre called documentary theatre . John McGrath , founder of the Scottish popular theatre company 7:84 , argued that "the theatre can never 'cause' a social change. It can articulate pressure towards one, help people celebrate their strengths and maybe build their self-confidence… Above all, it can be the way people find their voice, their solidarity and their collective determination." The television series The West Wing created by Aaron Sorkin which focuses on
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#17328580994591430-480: The 1950s. Stuart Klawans wrote in The New York Times in 2002 that "gentleness itself had become a sin." In his view, McCarey's "exquisitely sensitive" handling of the mother-son relationship in the first part of the film was undercut by Myles Connolly , a screenwriter known for writing many a "bullying speech" for Frank Capra . Klawans hears Connolly's tone in the film's finale, a commencement address warning
1495-594: The 1960s included episodes of The F.B.I. and The Fugitive , as well as films First to Fight (1967), Firecreek (1968), Day of the Evil Gun (1968), Smith! (1968) with Glenn Ford , The Lonely Profession (1969), Tiger by the Tail (1970), The Kremlin Letter (1970), Men at Law , The Brotherhood of the Bell (1970), again with Ford, and an episode of The Name of
1560-459: The 1960s, Jagger increasingly worked on television appearing in The Twilight Zone (" Static "), Sunday Showcase , Our American Heritage , General Electric Theater , Dr. Kildare , The Christophers , and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour . He also appeared in the films Parrish (1961), The Honeymoon Machine (1961) and Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962). Jagger achieved success with
1625-561: The 1960s, during the Vietnam War , is a primary example of politically oriented Brechtian performance art in the United States. Their original productions of Kenneth Brown 's The Brig (c. 1964), also filmed, and of Jack Gelber 's controversial play The Connection and its 1961 film rely upon and illustrate the dramaturgy of Brechtian alienation effect ( Verfremdungseffekt ) that most political theatre uses to some extent, forcing
1690-862: The City (1937) at MGM. Jagger appeared in Republic Pictures ' Escape by Night (1937) and Exiled to Shanghai (1937). Jagger played Michael Drops In in summer stock and returned to Broadway to star in Missouri Legend (1938), which ran 48 performances. He was also in short runs for Everywhere I Roam (1938–39), Brown Danube (1939), Farm of Three Echoes (1939–40) with Ethel Barrymore , and Unconquered (1940) by Ayn Rand . Jagger made his breakthrough with his portrayal of Mormon leader Brigham Young in Brigham Young (1940) at 20th Century Fox, alongside Tyrone Power for director Henry Hathaway . He
1755-626: The Dark (1935) with Myrna Loy and Cary Grant , Home on the Range (1935) with Jackie Coogan , Randolph Scott and Evelyn Brent , Car 99 (1935) with Fred MacMurray and Ann Sheridan , People Will Talk (1935) with Charlie Ruggles , and Men Without Names (1935) with Fred MacMurray. Paramount gave him a lead role in the B Western Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935). He was back in supporting parts in It's
1820-982: The Game . He had a semiregular role on the series Matt Lincoln (1970) as the father of the title character, and parts in Vanishing Point (1971), Bonanza , and Incident in San Francisco (1971). In 1971, Jagger appeared on The Partridge Family . He played a prospector named Charlie in the Christmas episode "Don't Bring Your Guns to Town, Santa". Jagger was in The Glass House (1972), Columbo , Kung Fu (Jagger appeared as Caine's grandfather, who wants little to do with him, but starts Caine on his series-long search for his half-brother Danny), Alias Smith and Jones , Medical Center , The Stranger (1973), The Delphi Bureau , The Lie (1973), Shaft , I Heard
1885-618: The Owl Call My Name (1973), Love Story , The Hanged Man (1974), The Great Lester Boggs (1974), So Sad About Gloria (1975), The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976), Harry O , Hunter , End of the World (1977), and Evil Town (1977). He played the syndicate boss in Game of Death (1978) as the nemesis of Bruce Lee . Jagger's later appearances included The Waltons , Gideon's Trumpet (1980) and Alligator (1980). He won
1950-723: The audience to take a "critical perspective" on events being dramatized or projected on screen(s) and building on aspects of the Theatre of Cruelty , which developed from the theory and practice of French early surrealist and proto- absurdist Antonin Artaud . In American regional theatre, a politically oriented social orientation occurs in Street theatre , such as that produced by the San Francisco Mime Troupe and ROiL. The Detroit Repertory Theatre has been among those regional theaters at
2015-810: The behavior of human beings as social and political animals. A new form of political theatre emerged in the twentieth century with feminist authors like Elfriede Jelinek or Caryl Churchill , who often make use of the non-realistic techniques detailed above. . During the 1960s and 1970s, new theatres emerged addressing women's issues. These theatres went beyond producing feminist plays, but also sought to give women opportunities and work experience in all areas of theatrical production which had heretofore been dominated by men. In addition to playwright, producers, and actors, there were opportunities for women electricians, set designers, musical director, stage managers, etc. The Living Theatre , created by Judith Malina and her husband Julian Beck in 1947, which had its heyday in
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2080-504: The box office. It grossed under $ 1 million and failed to make the list of the top 90 pictures of the year as compiled by Variety . Bosley Crowther wrote in his review for The New York Times that the film represented its time perfectly in that it "corresponds with the present public ferment of angry resentment and fear" and that it is "a picture so strongly dedicated to the purpose of the American anti-Communist purge that it seethes with
2145-539: The church clothing drive, and she finds a key. Stedman returns to inform her that he is an FBI agent investigating John. His mother tells John to "think with your heart, not your head." When she returns the trousers to John, he claims it was a normal loyalty check. Lucille discovers that the key is for an apartment of a female Soviet spy with whom John confesses to having an affair. Lucille refuses to accept his assurances of loyalty and begs him to confess, and declares that he deserves to be punished. However, John points out that
2210-451: The court will refuse to accept Lucille's testimony since she is suffering from a mental illness, which Stedman accuses John of causing. Stedman advises him that he should "use whatever free will you have. Give up. Name names." John tries to flee the country on a flight to Lisbon , but at the last minute finds faith in God, repents his actions and decides to turn himself in to Stedman. However, John
2275-451: The father of Elvis Presley 's character in 1958's King Creole , directed by Curtiz. Jagger was in The Nun's Story (1959), playing the father of Audrey Hepburn 's character, and Cash McCall (1960), and played the traveling manager for an evangelist played by Jean Simmons in the acclaimed 1960 drama Elmer Gantry . He was in two failed pilots, including The House on K Street . In
2340-447: The federal government in Washington, D.C. A week later, John pays a surprise visit to his parents, his devoutly Catholic mother Lucille and American Legionnaire father Dan. In conversation with them and their parish priest, John uses humor to make provocative statements and his attitude is resented. He spends hours with one of his college professors, leaving his parents feeling shortchanged. Anxious about his son's behavior, Dan gets into
2405-888: The fictional Democratic administration of President Josiah Bartlet is widely considered one of the best TV shows of all time, having won three Golden Globe Awards and 26 Primetime Emmy Awards , including the award for Outstanding Drama Series , which it won four consecutive times from 2000 to 2003. Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister were British political satire sitcoms . Other television series that have been classified as political dramas include Borgen , Boss , Jack & Bobby , The Bold Ones: The Senator , Commander in Chief , House of Cards ( British and American versions), Madam Secretary , Designated Survivor , Spin , Ingobernable , Scandal , Billions , The Looming Tower , and The Mechanism . The Good Wife can also be considered
2470-399: The film advised the public to "cut out thinking, obey their superiors blindly, regard all political suspects as guilty without trial, revel in joy through strength, and pay more attention to football." Others have appreciated that the film locates the ideological conflict within a complex set of family relations, with father and son competing for the same woman's affection, but noted that John
2535-449: The film and be tried for his murder. Hayes called it "a natural, human part" for which she did not have to worry about her appearance. She denied that the film's message attracted her to the project: "I just like the character and the story. I am deadly set against messages as the prime factor for taking a part. But I do feel the picture is a very exciting comment on a certain phase of our living today." John Lee Mahin said he agreed to write
2600-619: The film if they downplayed the Anti-Communist article and made the film about a mother's concern for her son. He claims his script was rewritten by Myles Connelly. "McCarey was a brilliant man who let the Communists drive him absolutely crazy," said Mahin. "He actually went crazy." In February 1951, Robert Walker was borrowed from MGM to play the title role. That same month, Dean Jagger signed. Van Heflin signed in April 1951. Ten days into shooting,
2665-531: The film's "snide anti-intellectual stance." Soon after the film opened, Crowther noted that My Son John provided an ironic contrast to the public outcry about communist subversion in the film industry on the part of the American Legion and the Catholic War Veterans . He wrote: Amid all this turmoil, an irony is that one of the latest films from Hollywood, My Son John , is a passionate endorsement of
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2730-506: The forefront of political comedy, staging plays like Jacob M. Appel 's Arborophilia , in which a lifelong Democrat prefers that her daughter fall in love with a poplar tree instead of a Republican activist. In 2014, Chicago's Annoyance Theater produced Good Morning Gitmo : a one-act play by Mishu Hilmy and Eric Simon which lampoons the US Detention Center at Guantanamo Bay . David Hare 's play Straight Line Crazy focuses on
2795-536: The greatest and most stirring pro-American motion picture of the last decade. ... It should be seen by the people of every American home." McCarey told the magazine Motion Picture that he felt mistreated and hurt. A month after the film opened, the Catholic Press Association awarded McCarey its 1952 Literary Prize for "exemplification of Christian , Catholic principles," citing his work on My Son John and other films. In 1998, Jonathan Rosenbaum of
2860-592: The history of theatre, there is long tradition of performances addressing issues of current events, especially those central to society itself. The political satire performed by the comic poets at the theatres had considerable influence on public opinion in the Athenian democracy . Those earlier Western dramas, arising out of the polis , or democratic city-state of Greek society, were performed in amphitheaters, central arenas used for theatrical performances, religious ceremonies and political gatherings; these dramas had
2925-485: The life of Robert Moses , played by Ralph Fiennes , the controversial urban planner who worked in New York . Kitchen sink realism or kitchen sink drama was a movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre, art, novels, film, and television plays, whose protagonists usually could be described as " angry young men " who were disillusioned with modern society. It used a style of social realism to depict
2990-699: The lives of working class Britons, and to explore controversial social and political issues ranging from abortion to homelessness. The film It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) is a precursor of the genre, and John Osborne 's play Look Back in Anger (1956) is an example of an early play in this genre. The Iraq War is the focus of some recent British political drama; for example, Stuff Happens , by David Hare . David Edgar and Mark Ravenhill also satirize contemporary socio-political realities in their recent dramatic works. Banner Theatre in Birmingham , England, in
3055-607: The lust for power. For example, they observe that class struggle in the Roman Republic is central to Coriolanus . Historically in Soviet Russia , the term political theatre was sometimes referred to as agitprop theatre or simply agitprop , after the Soviet term agitprop . In later centuries, political theatre has sometimes taken a different form. Sometimes associated with cabaret and folk theatre, it has offered itself as
3120-626: The musical White Christmas (1954), and an impotent local sheriff in the modern Western Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), starring Spencer Tracy for MGM. He was also in The Eternal Sea (1955) at Republic, It's a Dog's Life (1955) at MGM, On the Threshold of Space (1956) at Fox, and Red Sundown (1956) at Universal. For the 1956 British science-fiction film X the Unknown , Jagger refused to work with director Joseph Losey because Losey
3185-507: The person of Dean Jagger, who plays an American Legionnaire. Other critics underscored the cultural attitudes behind the film's politics. In the New York Herald Tribune , Ogden Reid , later a congressman, wrote: "McCarey's picture of how America ought to be is so frightening, so speciously argued, so full of warnings against an intelligent solution to the problem that it boomerangs upon its own cause." The New Yorker wrote that
3250-466: The plot's unknown elements continued to garner press coverage. McCarey denied that the script was the Alger Hiss story and said that it had a "happy ending." He said: It's about a mother and father who struggled and slaved. They had no education. They put all their money into higher education for their sons. But one of the kids gets too bright. It poses the problem–how bright can you get? He takes up
3315-516: The project by reporting the casting of each role, beginning with the news in December 1950 that Helen Hayes was considering it for her return to motion pictures after 17 years away from the film industry. The details of the story were kept secret while it was first described in one news report as "a contemporary drama about the relationship between a mother and son, described by McCarey as 'highly emotional but with much humor'." Hedda Hopper reported that
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#17328580994593380-399: The relentless pursuit of American Communists to the extent that the acceptance of " guilt by association " is espoused. Helen Hayes is the star of this picture as a mother who condemns her own son when she learns that he has been consorting with a girl who is charged with being a spy. The irony is that the sort of cultural vigilantism that is currently being forced on Hollywood is made heroic in
3445-459: The script "has gotten raves from everyone who's read it." Despite McCarey's "close-mouthed silence" for two months and a public warning to Hayes not to discuss the plot, it was reported that "word has gotten around Hollywood with the authority such wisps of information always have that the son ... is a traitor to his country–an agent of Communist espionage." Daily Variety reported that Hayes, mirroring certain current events, would shoot her son in
3510-420: The script was rewritten so that Robert Walker would perform the speech instead. However, Walker died on August 28, 1951, less than a week after completing principal photography on the film and only a few hours after recording the audio for the ending speech. Because Walker was unavailable for the reshoots for the scene, the script was changed so that Walker's character would be killed before the commencement, with
3575-404: The sort of emotionalism and illogic that is characteristic of so much thinking these days." He wrote that allowing a mother to condemn her son based on flimsy evidence shows the film's "hot emotional nature" and that its endorsement of bigotry and argument for religious conformity would "cause a thoughtful person to feel a shudder of apprehension." While praising all of the actors, Crowther regretted
3640-492: The television series Mr. Novak (1963–1965), receiving Emmy Award nominations for his role in 1964 and 1965, as well as the California Teachers Association's Communications Award, along with star James Franciscus , in 1963 for his portrayal of high-school principal Albert Vane. Before he left the show to have a major medical operation, though, he was less than happy with the series, clashing repeatedly with
3705-442: The way agitprop theatre has been used to further Marxism and the development of communist sympathies. Russian agitprop theater was noted for its cardboard characters of perfect virtue and complete evil, and its coarse ridicule. Less radical versions of political theatre have become established within the mainstream modern repertory - such as the realist dramas of Arthur Miller ( The Crucible and All My Sons ), which probe
3770-540: The writers and directors and describing "the Mr. Novak company" afterwards as "a mishmash of unbelievable amateurishness." "It is unforgivable how bad TV is today," he said in 1965. "The people doing it have succumbed to the cliché that there is no time to be good in TV, or that we doing it are lucky to get one good episode out of three. Why?" Jagger officially left the show in December 1964 because of an ulcer. Jagger's appearances in
3835-482: The young against liberalism. J. Hoberman noted the film's dual personality, writing that it "aspires to the warmth of a domestic comedy while remaining tendentious to the core, relentlessly unfunny and starkly melodramatic." Political drama Dramatists who have written political dramas include Aaron Sorkin , Robert Penn Warren , Sergei Eisenstein , Bertolt Brecht , Jean-Paul Sartre , Howard Brenton , Caryl Churchill , and Federico García Lorca . In
3900-566: Was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and played football. He dropped out in his second year, realizing he was not suited to an academic life. At age 17, he taught all eight grades in a rural elementary school, before heading to Chicago. He studied at the Conservatory of Drama with Elias Day, and through him got a job on the Chautauqua circuit . Jagger studied acting at Chicago's Lyceum Arts Conservatory. He eventually played Young Matt in
3965-954: Was announced for the Biblical film The Great Commandment and a biopic of Lewis and Clark with Randolph Scott , but neither was made. Instead, Jagger appeared in The Men in Her Life (1941) for Columbia, Valley of the Sun (1942) at RKO, and The Omaha Trail (1942) at MGM. Jagger had a rare lead role in I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943) for the King Brothers , then went back to supporting roles for The North Star (1943) for Sam Goldwyn . The King Brothers gave him top billing again with When Strangers Marry (1944). Jagger acted in Alaska (1944) at Monogram, which
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#17328580994594030-580: Was cast on the basis of his performance in Missouri Legend . According to George D. Pyper , a technical consultant on the film who had personally known Brigham Young, Jagger not only resembled Young, but he also spoke like him and had many of his mannerisms. Thirty-two years later, in 1972 he was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . Fox signed him to a long-term contract and put him in Western Union (1941) for Fritz Lang . He
4095-508: Was distributed to King films. Jagger went to England to appear in I Live in Grosvenor Square (1945) with Anna Neagle and Rex Harrison . He had good roles in Sister Kenny (1946) with Rosalind Russell and Pursued (1947) with Robert Mitchum . He did Driftwood (1947) for Republic and started appearing on TV shows such as The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse , Studio One , and The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre . Jagger returned to Broadway for Dr. Social (1948), but it had
4160-629: Was later viewed as a possible attempt by the motion picture industry to signal its loyalty to the ongoing anticommunist campaign. Retrospective reviews have characterized it as a propaganda film indicative of attitudes during the Second Red Scare . My Son John was Walker's final role; he died in August 1951, midway through principal photography. In uniform, Chuck and Ben Jefferson, strapping blonds who played high-school football, attend Sunday Mass with their parents before leaving for army service in Korea. Their older brother John sends regrets that he cannot join their farewell dinner because of his work for
4225-616: Was on the Hollywood blacklist . Losey came off the project after a few days of shooting and was replaced by Leslie Norman . An alternative version is that Losey was replaced due to illness. Half the budget, $ 30,000, went to Jagger's fee. Jagger was in The 20th Century Fox Hour , Three Brave Men (1956), The Great Man (1956) (second-billed to José Ferrer ), Zane Grey Theatre , "Bernadine" (1957) with Pat Boone , an episode of Playhouse 90 , Forty Guns (1957) for Sam Fuller , and The Proud Rebel (1958) with Alan Ladd and directed by Michael Curtiz . Jagger also portrayed
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