The Magnificent Dope (1942)
Meet the All-American Jerk...Ladies' Man De Luxe!
83 min
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is contented with his idle, lazy life and threatens to convert Dawson's other students to his philosophy. Dawson captalizes on Tad's attraction to Claire Harris to win him over; but will Tad find out Claire is really engaged to Dawson?
- Release date
- July 1, 1942
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Emil Newman
Cast
- Henry Fonda as Tad Page
- Lynn Bari as Claire Harris
- Don Ameche as Dwight Dawson
- Edward Everett Horton as Horace Hunter
- George Barbier as Barker
- Frank Orth as Messenger
- Roseanne Murray as Secretary
- Marietta Canty as Jenny
- Hobart Cavanaugh as Albert Gowdy
- Hal K. Dawson as Charlie
Crew
- Walter Lang · Director
- George Seaton · Writer
- Joseph Schrank · Writer
- William Perlberg · Producer
- Emil Newman · Composer
- J. Peverell Marley · Cinematographer
- Barbara McLean · Editor