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Captains Courageous

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    • Victor Fleming directing Gone with the Wind
      In Victor Fleming: The 1930s

      …rebounded with the hugely successful Captains Courageous (1937). The family drama was a sentimental but affecting version of the Rudyard Kipling novel about a spoiled rich boy (played by Freddie Bartholomew) who learns about life after falling from an ocean liner and being rescued by fishermen. Spencer Tracy won his…

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  • Oscar to Tracy for best actor, 1937

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        • Lionel Barrymore
          In Lionel Barrymore

          Other memorable movies were Captains Courageous (1937), The Valley of Decision (1945), Duel in the Sun (1947), and Key Largo (1948). In the popular and long-running Dr. Kildare film series, which began with Young Dr. Kildare in 1938, he played Dr. Gillespie.

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