Film
The Male Animal
United States- Age rating
- NR
- Director
- Elliott Nugent
- Year
- 1942
SHE turned a lamb into a lion!
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
Top cast
Henry Fonda
Tommy Turner
Olivia de Havilland
Ellen Turner
Joan Leslie
Patricia Stanley
Jack Carson
Joe Ferguson
Eugene Pallette
Ed Keller
Herbert Anderson
Michael Barnes
Hattie McDaniel
Cleota
Ivan F. Simpson
Dean Frederick Damon
Don DeFore
Wally Myers
Jean Ames
"Hot Garters" Gardner
Minna Phillips
Mrs. Blanche Damon
Regina Wallace
Mrs. Myrtle Keller
Frank Mayo
Coach Sprague
William B. Davidson
Alumnus
Bobby Barnes
Nutsy Miller
Tod Andrews
Student (uncredited)
Sam Ash
Trustee (uncredited)
Raymond Bailey
Reporter on Porch (uncredited)
Directed by
Elliott Nugent
Written by
Stephen Morehouse Avery, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein
