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The Great Man's Lady (1942)

Actors: Hank Bell (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Horace B. Carpenter (actor), George Chandler (actor), David Clyde (actor), Monte Blue (actor), Lloyd Corrigan (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Brian Donlevy (actor), Thurston Hall (actor), John Hamilton (actor), Sam Harris (actor), Tex Cooper (actor), George Irving (actor), Charles Lane (actor),

Plot: In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.

Keywords: african-american, arranged-marriage, biographer, black-maid, black-stereotype, centenarian, death-of-children, divorce, farm, first-person-narration
Genres: Drama, Romance, Western,
Taglines: The unforgettable story of the woman behind the men who built an empire. She's his secret woman!

Quotes:

Steely Edwards: Turn your thousand into a million; you can't lose without tryin'. It's all in the cards. Three-card monte, gentlemen. I want your money. The game's crooked, the cards are fixed, you can't win.

Delilah: Engaged is maybe; married is done-done.

Hannah Sempler: Spring never comes again, Ethan. Perhaps in the Indian Summer we'll meet once more.

Foreman: She's not just news anymore - she's history!

[last lines]::Hannah Sempler: [said to statue] Forever, Ethan. No one can change it... forever.

Hannah Sempler: Men were different in those days. Men like Ethan. A drink in one hand and luck in the other.