Cass Timberlane
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| Directed by | George Sidney |
| Produced by | Arthur Hornblow, Jr. |
| Written by | Sinclair Lewis (Novel) Donald Ogden Stewart(Adaptation) Sonya Levien (Adaptation) |
| Starring | Spencer Tracy Lana Turner Zachary Scott |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
| Cinematography | Robert Planck |
| Editing by | John Dunning |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | November 1947 |
| Running time | 119 mins. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
Cass Timberlane is a novel written by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1945. It is Sinclair Lewis' nineteenth novel and one of his last.
It was made into a romantic drama film starring Spencer Tracy and Lana Turner, directed by George Sidney, and released in 1947.
Timberlane is a minor character in Lewis's novel Kingsblood Royal.
[edit] Synopsis
Former Congressman and now Judge Cass Timberlane is a middle-aged, incorruptible, highly-respected man who enjoys good books and playing the flute. He falls for Jinny, a much younger girl from a lower class in his small Minnesota town. At first, the marriage is happy, but Jinny becomes bored with the small town and with the judge's friends. She leaves him for an affair with a lawyer, Timberlane's boyhood friend. Eventually abandoned by her lover, Jinny returns to her husband and becomes the good wife. This is Lewis' examination of marriage, love, romance, heartache and trust.
[edit] Cultural references
Wolcott Gibbs spoofed the novel in The New Yorker as "Shad Ampersand."
[edit] External links
- Cass Timberlane at the Internet Movie Database
- Cass Timberlane at AllRovi
- Cass Timberlane at Rotten Tomatoes
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