Father Edward J. Flanagan
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Boys Town is a 1938 American biographical drama film based on Father Edward J. Flanagan 's work with a group of underprivileged boys in a home/educational complex that he founded and named "Boys Town" in Nebraska. It stars Spencer Tracy as Father Edward J. Flanagan, and Mickey Rooney with Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, and Gene Reynolds .
Boys Town: Directed by Norman Taurog. With Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton. When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.
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- Biography, Drama, Family
- Norman Taurog
- 1938-09-09
Oct 5, 2012 · Against all odds Father Flanagan starts "Boys' Town" after hearing a convict's story. Whitey Marsh comes there. He runs away but, hungry, returns. He runs away again but, when friend Pee Wee is...
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Memorable Moments. By 1937, word of Father Flanagan’s success with young boys stretched across the country, and soon reached the ears of movie producers in Hollywood. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wrote to Boys Town, saying the motion picture corporation would donate $5,000 to make a movie about the Home.
True story of Father Flanagan's fight to build a home for orphaned boys.
- Norman Taurog, Horace Hough
- Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy, in the role for which he won his second Academy Award, stars as Father Flanagan, the real-life founder of Boys Town. Idealistic, young priest, Father Flanagan struggles to achieve his dream of creating a place where tough, young city boys may have the chance at a normal life.
The devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage...
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