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The Great Man Votes is a 1939 American drama film starring John Barrymore as a widowed professor turned drunkard who has the deciding vote in an election for mayor. It was based on the short story of the same name by Gordon Malherbe Hillman published in the November 1933 issue of American Magazine. [2] .
The Great Man Votes: Directed by Garson Kanin. With John Barrymore, Peter Holden, Virginia Weidler, Katharine Alexander. In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book-to-bottle.
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- Drama
- Garson Kanin
- 1939-01-13
Following the death of his wife, Gregory Vance, a respected Harvard educator and scholar, degenerates into a philosophical drunk, finally sinking to the position of night watchman.
- Garson Kanin, Edward Donohue
- John Barrymore
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In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers.
- Garson Kanin
- RKO Radio Pictures
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Advertise With Us. Respected scholar Gregory Vance (John Barrymore) falls to pieces upon the death of his wife, descending into drunken irresponsibility. Despite his being reduced to working as a...
- Comedy, Drama
