STARS IN MY CROWN
DIRECTED BY JACQUES TOURNEUR
PRODUCED BY WILLIAM H. WRIGHT
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER
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Plot Summary
Civil War veteran Josiah Grey comes to a small town to be a gospel minister.
In time he has a family and many friends, but he also finds friction
with a few of his parishioners.
A young doctor grates at what he feels is the parson's
interference in the scientific treatment of patients,
and a mine owner resents Grey's protection of an old sharecropper
whose small plot of land stands in the way of his continued mining.
Grey must face a public health crisis and a lynch mob as a result,
all seen and described through the eyes and memory
of Grey's young nephew John.
Written by Jim Beaver
Full Cast
Joel McCrea ... Josiah Doziah Gray
Ellen Drew ... Harriet Gray
Dean Stockwell ... John Kenyon
Alan Hale ... Jed Isbell
Lewis Stone ... Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr.
James Mitchell ... Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Jr.
Amanda Blake ... Faith Radmore Samuels
Juano Hernandez ... Uncle Famous Prill
Charles Kemper ... Prof. Sam Houston Jones
Connie Gilchrist ... Sarah Isbell
Ed Begley ... Lon Backett
Jack Lambert ... Perry Lokey
Arthur Hunnicutt ... Chloroform Wiggins
Marshall Thompson ... Narrator (adult John Kenyon) (voice)
James Arness ... Rolfe Isbell (uncredited)
Jessie Arnold ... Annie (voice) (uncredited)
Polly Bailey ... Mrs. Belsher (uncredited)
Margaret Bert ... Townswoman (uncredited)
Helen Brown ... Townswoman (uncredited)
Matilda Caldwell ... Townswoman (uncredited)
Robert Cherry ... Townsman (uncredited)
Bill Clauson ... Cade Isbell (uncredited)
Chuck Courtney ... Jed Isbell (uncredited)
Fred Datig Jr. ... Townsman (uncredited)
Adeline De Walt Reynolds ... Granny Gailbraith (uncredited)
Helen Eby-Rock ... Townswoman (uncredited)
Edmund Glover ... Clyde Chapman (uncredited)
Jessica Grayson ... Bessie - Maid (uncredited)
Eula Guy ... Townswoman (uncredited)
Ralph Hodges ... Tom Isbell (uncredited)
Victor Kilian ... Ned (uncredited)
Al Kunde ... Townsman (uncredited)
Baron James Lichter ... Townsman (uncredited)
Philo McCullough ... Townsman (uncredited)
Patricia Miller ... Mrs. Chapman (uncredited)
Frank Mills ... Drunk in Saloon (uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell ... Townsman (uncredited)
Rhea Mitchell ... Mrs. Backett (uncredited)
Jimmy Moss ... Bobby Sam Carroll (uncredited)
Patsy O'Byrne ... Townswoman (uncredited)
Norman Ollestad ... Chase Isbell (uncredited)
Frank Pharr ... Townsman (uncredited)
James Pierce ... Townsman (uncredited)
Carl Pitti ... Townsman (uncredited)
'Snub' Pollard ... Fat Bartender (uncredited)
Alice Richey ... Townswoman (uncredited)
Buddy Roosevelt ... Townsman (uncredited)
Tex Terry ... Townsman (uncredited)
Connie Van ... Townswoman (uncredited)
Ben Watson ... Gene Caldwell (uncredited)
Wilson Wood ... Thad Carroll (uncredited)
Writing Credits
Joe David Brown (novel) (adaptation)
Margaret Fitts (screenplay)
Original Music
Adolph Deutsch
Cinematography
Charles Edgar Schoenbaum
Trivia
Final film of Alan Hale.
The film's title is based on the hymn "Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown?" (originally titled "Will There Be Any Stars"); music by John R. Sweney, lyrics by Eliza E. Hewitt, circa 1897.