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	The Magnificent Yankee
		Louis Calhern had been a fixture in Hollywood since 1921, playing in nearly 50 movies before he got his chance not only to carry a picture largely himself but to turn in what many considered a tour de force performance as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Magnificent Yankee (1950).
		Calhern created a portrait of "a robust, living character," Variety said in November 1950, "scoring in all departments, from [Holmes'] younger days in Washington through his crotchety but still sagacious old age." The performance brought Calhern his only Academy Award® nomination; he was also nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor.
		In 1946 Calhern had a great success on Broadway in the story of Holmes' life from his appointment to the high court by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 (incidentally, the year Calhern began acting) to his final years under FDR (Holmes died in 1935).
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	Louis Calhern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Louis Calhern (born February 19, 1895 in Brooklyn, New York; died May 12, 1956 in Japan) was an American actor.
		Born Carl Henry Vogt ("Calhern" derives from "Carl Henry"), he played leads in silent films in the 1920s and was able to successfully transition to talkies, as well as starring on the stage.
		Calhern died in Tokyo of a heart attack while filming The Teahouse of the August Moon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Calhern (146 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Louis Calhern (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In films from 1921, Calhern thrived in the early talkie era as a cultured, saturnine villain.
		For a time, Calhern battled alcoholism and lost several important stage and screen assignments because of his personal problems, but by the late 1940s, Calhern had gone cold turkey and completely cleaned up his act.
		Louis Calhern died of a sudden heart attack while filming The Teahouse of the August Moon in Japan; he was replaced by character actor Paul Ford.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/9167/bio.jhtml (337 words)

	Louis Calhern - Films as actor:
		Calhern was also subjected to indignities by the comedy team of Wheeler and Woolsey in Diplomaniacs and by Danny Kaye in Up in Arms.
		Calhern usually essayed authoritative characters, helped by a powerful physical presence with a height in the 6'2" to 6'3" range.
		Louis Calhern's film career had its ups and downs but he proved himself to be a distinguished character actor.
	www.filmreference.com /Actors-and-Actresses-Bo-Ca/Calhern-Louis.html (1291 words)

	Louis Calhern: The Film Noir 'net
		Louis Calhern was born Carl Henry Vogt on February 19, 1895 in New York City.
		Calhern is well remembered today as conniving Ambassador Trentino in the 1933 Marx Brothers film Duck Soup, and confirmed his ability as a comedic actor in Wheeler and Woolsey's equally nonsensical Diplomaniacs that same year).
		Louis Calhern died of a sudden heart attack on May 12, 1956 while filming The Teahouse of the August Moon in Tokyo, Japan, and had to be replaced by character actor Paul Ford.
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	The Magnificent Yankee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Magnificent Yankee is a 1951 biographical film which tells the life story of United States Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
		It stars Louis Calhern, Ann Harding, Eduard Franz and Philip Ober.
		It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Louis Calhern) and Best Costume Design, Black-and-White.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Magnificent_Yankee (131 words)

	Louis Calhern - Biography
		Tall, distinguished, aristocratic Louis Calhern seemed to be the poster boy for old-money, upper-crust urban society, but he was actually born Carl Vogt, to middle-class parents in New York City.
		His family moved to St. Louis when he was a child, and it was while playing football in high school there that he was spotted by a representative of a touring acting troupe and hired as an actor.
		Appeared as a character in Gore Vidal's 1974 novel "Myron," his sequel to Myra Breckinridge (1970), co-starring with Maria Montez and Bruce Cabot in the apocryphal movie "Siren of Babylon" that is being shot on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot in 1948 in the novel.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0129894/bio (459 words)

	TCM ~ THE ESSENTIALS
		One version has an employee of MGM's talent department suggesting that John Huston try out Monroe for the part of Louis Calhern's mistress, with Huston immediately realizing she was perfect for the role after her sensual audition.
		The censors voiced their complaints and objections over Louis Calhern's suicide as written in the original script.
		In the rejected scene, Calhern was to write a short farewell letter to his wife, then take a pistol out of his desk and kill himself.
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	Film/Classic: High Society (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, all at the top of their very great forms and a sophisticated score by Cole Porter, it is surprising that "High Society" has been overshadowed by many other musicals with lesser singer talents.
		The movie gets off to a rousing start as Louis Armstrong introduces the story aboard a bus with his jazz band en route to a jazz festival in Newport of which Dexter-Haven is a sponsor.
		Tracy is horrified to discover that her forthcoming wedding is to be covered by a magazine that has agreed to suppress an embarrassing story about her family.
	www.thecityreview.com /highsoc.html (976 words)

	Blot commentary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Next door to the Griggs are the Olsens, a large and lively family of immigrants living high on the hog, thanks to a thriving shoemaking business.
		Louis Calhern is entirely understated as he segues from naive, unthinking cad to morally outraged Samaritan; and the beautiful Claire Windsor, one melodramatic moment excepted, plays Amelia with light brush strokes of cool grace under pressure.
		But it is Margaret McWade who lingers in the memory: one understands from the first shot of her haunting face that here is a woman reduced to almost catatonic repression by years of doing without.
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	The Blot
		When one of the preppy students, played by a young, young Louis Calhern, falls for threadbare librarian Claire Windsor, he seems almost shocked by the chink in his own vanity.
		Calhern’s character comes to bridge the socioeconomic gulf dividing this microcosm — though he’s not above turning a profit, using the experience to complete a term paper.
		This end of the film broaches (albeit simplistically) a capitalist anomaly: educators and the clergy make due on limited funds, while the fat cats hoarding the money are the same people they’ve shaped and nurtured toward power.
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	FYE
		For a time, Calhern battled alcoholism and lost several important stage and screen assignments because of his personal problems, but by the late 1940s, Calhern had gone cold turkey and completely cleaned up his act.
		An MGM contract player throughout the 1950s, Calhern was seen as Buffalo Bill in Annie Get Your Gun (1950), the above-suspicion criminal mastermind (and "uncle" of kept woman Marilyn Monroe) in The Asphalt Jungle (1950), and the title character in Julius Caesar (1953).
		Louis Calhern died of a sudden heart attack while filming The Teahouse of the August Moon in Japan; he was replaced by character actor Paul Ford.
	www.fye.com /viewamgrefdata.htm?actorId=10266 (315 words)

	The Magnificent Yankee
		The first time we meet Louis Calhern as Holmes, in 1902 (a dutiful narrator tells us over the image, "This is what Washington looked like in 1902"), he is checking out a townhouse in Washington, D.C., that he means to buy as a home upon accepting his new seat on the high Court.
		Louis Calhern, who was the toast of Broadway in the play and an Oscar nominee for the film version, is affable and decent.
		But then twenty minutes or so into the movie, Holmes decides that the male secretaries he hires as temporary assistants (presumably as some kind of stepping stone on their way to greater legal glory) will serve the role of the couple's children.
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	Amazon.com: Magnificent Yankee: Louis Calhern, Ann Harding, Eduard Franz, Philip Ober, Ian Wolfe, Edith Evanson, ...
		"The Magnificent Yankee" is an acting tour-de-force by Louis Calhern, whose long, distinguished career began in 1921 as a matinee idol and culminated in his masterful character roles in the years before his untimely death in 1956.
		A Shakespearean actor whose work on the legitimate stage was lauded by fans and critics alike, Calhern portrays the estimable Holmes with a measured balance of wit, sensitivity, and intellectuality.
		Calhern's silky voice, debonair demeanor, and commanding presence are legendary, and were used to particlularly grand effect in this great film.
	www.amazon.com /Magnificent-Yankee-Louis-Calhern/dp/630292295X (389 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Alonzo D. Emmerich (Louis Calhern) is a sleazy lawyer who'll fence the stolen jewels, giving "Doc" and his cohorts $1 million for their labors.
		Calhern figures nicely as the crooked lawyer who keeps Monroe, in an outstanding cameo that foretold her future stardom.
		Jean Hagen's moll is a rare lead female performance, poignant and subtly shaded, that is totally devoid of studio-era vanity.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=29964 (273 words)

	Louis Calhern Filmography
		Louis Calhern is Julius Caesar, whose conquests have enabled him to rise to the status of Roman dictator.
		Synopsis: Louis Calhern repeats his Broadway role as Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in this 1950 cinemazation of Emmet Lavery's stage play The Magnificent Yankee.
		Synopsis: On the eve of her marriage to Cary Grant, socialite Nancy Carroll is visited by her sadistic ex-lover Louis Calhern, who threatens to have his gangster pal Jack LaRue rub out Grant if Carroll doesn't give up her marriage plans.
	www.fandango.com /louiscalhern/filmography/p10266 (4087 words)

	Annie Get Your Gun: From Stage to Screen (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Finally, Louis Calhern has a good look for the role of Cody, but his performance is not as charismatic as a Buffalo Bill needs to be.
		Calhern, Wynn and Keel exhibit simple choreography while Hutton humorously tries to catch on and participate.
		Louis Calhern is sent to the background as Buffalo Bill Cody, lacking much of the charisma the real Cody carried in spades.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /moviemusicals/Annieget/Oakley.htm (2298 words)

	The Asphalt Jungle
		The modernism in this drama is in the documentary feel of the settings and the real-time sequences that depend on characterization for emotion rather than music.
		But as the watchman's gun hits the floor, it discharges and fatally wounds Louis the safecracker in a random stroke of fate.
		Nonetheless, they slip into the night, return Louis to his wife where he dies later in the company of a priest.
	www.culturecourt.com /F/Noir/AJungle.htm (989 words)

	Read about Louis Calhern at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Louis Calhern and learn about Louis Calhern here! (Site not responding. Last check: )
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		Oliver Wendell Holmes won him an Academy Award nomination for
		Calhern died in Tokyo of a heart attack while filming
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	Louis Calhern - Rotten Tomatoes Celebrity Profile
		Bio: Louis Calhern (February 19, 1895 - May 12, 1956) was an American stage and screen actor.
		Early life Calhern was born Carl Henry Vogt.
		There are no Louis Calhern user fan sites.
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	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The Magnificent Yankee : Main
		Louis Calhern repeats his Broadway role as Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in this 195...
		Louis Calhern repeats his Broadway role as Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in this 1950 cinemazation of Emmet Lavery's stage play The Magnificent Yankee.
		The film is for the most part confined to the Holmes home in Washington, where the good gray judge parries affectionately with his level-headed wife Fanny (Ann Harding).
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	asphaltjungle
		The elaborate plan is financially staked by crooked playboy lawyer Alonzo Emmerich (Louis Calhern).
		Dix (Sterling Hayden, in his first starring role) is the ruffian of the gang, a struggling small-time hood who sees the heist as an opportunity to own a horse farm in Kentucky.
		The hunchbacked cafe owner Gus (James Whitmore), with the heart of gold, is hired to be the driver; Louis Ciavelli (Anthony Caruso) is the professional safecracker; and a sniveling loudmouth bookie named Cobby (Marc Lawrence) will be the "paymaster" of the operation, as the nearly-bankrupt Alonzo doesn't have the cash to bankroll the heist.
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Asphalt Jungle
		What Doc doesn't know is that Emmerich is in dire financial straits, and that he and private detective Bob Brannom (Brad Dexter) are planning to skip the country with the entire heist.
		Meanwhile, Doc uses Emmerich's financing to hire three men — hunchbacked diner cook Gus (James Whitmore) will man the car, safecracker Louis Ciavelli (Anthony Caruso) is the box-man, and small-time gambler Dix Handle (Sterling Hayden) is the muscle to serve as lookout and protection.
		However, the police, led by no-nonsense Commissioner Hardy (John McIntire), are already cracking down on crime in the city, and Hardy has taken corrupt Lt. Ditrich (Barry Kelley) to the mat over the city's notorious gambling parlors.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/a/asphaltjungle.q.shtml (934 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "The Asphalt Jungle" review (1950) John Huston, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James ...
		He goes to a cheap bookie, Cobby (Marc Lawrence) for the cash to hire his crew, and Cobby in turn goes to a millionaire lawyer (Louis Calhern) who is actually broke and hopes to double cross everyone.
		Jean Hagen (who would go on to play the memorable Lena Lamont in "Singin' in the Rain") plays Hayden's talkative girl and a young Marilyn Monroe plays the lawyer's extramarital fling.
		It comes with a commentary track by USC Cinema History professor Drew Casper, plus archival comments by James Whitmore, a vintage filmed introduction by Huston, a trailer, optional English, French and Spanish subtitles and an optional French language track.
	www.splicedwire.com /95andbefore/asphaltjungle_dvd.html (478 words)

	Great Character Actors
		Louis Calhern was an imposing figure; tall, with a kindly face framed with a mane of white hair, a distinguished looking white mustache, with a velvety smooth voice, and a very debonair air about him.
		As a youngster his family moved to St. Louis where he grew up.
		This was interrupted by a stint in the military during World War I. Upon return from France he felt it best to change his German name and he came up with Louis (for St. Louis) and Calhern (a combination of Carl & Henry, his given names).
	www.dougmacaulay.com /kingspud/sel_by_actor_index_2.php?actor_first=Louis&actor_last=Calhern (280 words)

	Louis Calhern
		Tall, distinguished, aristocratic Louis Calhern seemed to be the poster...
		In 1950 he replaced Frank Morgan as Buffalo Bill, when Morgan died of...
		The World Gone Mad (1933) (as Louis Calhearn)....
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0129894 (273 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: High Society (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A remake of the brilliant George Cukor 1940 screwball The Philadelphia Story starring the power trio of Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and James Stewart, 1956's High Society has constantly been judged against its predecessor — it isn't witty enough, there's less chemistry among the leads, and there's no Kate Hepburn.
		The two films are very different; they contain their own timely style and cleverness, one with cutting dialogue, the other via the genius of Cole Porter, whose tunes easily flow through the scenes as playfully as Katharine Hepburn breaking Cary Grant's golf club in two.
		Other standouts are the Sinatra-Holm duet, "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" and Louis Armstrong's (who opens the film almost like a Greek Chorus) calypso "High Society." The picture is gorgeously shot in Technicolor, Cole Porter's songs are timeless genius, and the performances are delightful.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/h/highsociety.q.shtml (650 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Annie Get Your Gun -- George Sidney - DVD - Pan & Scan / Mono
		She positively lights up the screen as legendary Wild West sharpshooter Annie Oakley, whose professional pride puts her at odds with dashing competitor Frank Butler (brawny Howard Keel, in the first of his many memorable Hollywood musicals).
		A distinguished supporting cast includes Edward Arnold, Keenan Wynn, J. Carrol Naish, and a particularly sprightly Louis Calhern as Buffalo Bill.
		Her mentor is Buffalo Bill, played by Louis Calhern (like Hutton, Calhern was a last-minute replacement: the original Buffalo Bill, Frank Morgan, died before production began).
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