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Tennessee Champ is a 1954 drama with strong Christian overtones starring Shelley Winters, Keenan Wynn, Dewey Martin, and Charles Bronson (credited as Charles Buchinsky), and directed by Fred M. Wilcox.
Mounted as a title to fill out double and triple bills (a B-movie), Tennessee Champ was one of several films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shot in its pet process of Ansco Color, a ruddy-looking process employed on the same year's Brigadoon.
Tennessee Champ marked a return to Hollywood for star Shelley Winters, who hadn't appeared in a film in almost two years due to her marriage to Vittorio Gassman (which ended in June 1954) and the birth of their child, Vittoria. The lull came just as she seemed to be on an upswing after roles in Winchester '73 (1950), Phone Call from a Stranger (1952), and her breakthrough tragic performance in A Place in the Sun (1951).
Original Release
03/03/1954
US Release
03/03/1954
Cast
Name | Character |
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Shelley Winters | Sarah Wurble |
Keenan Wynn | Willy Wurble |
Dewey Martin | Daniel Norson |
Earl Holliman | Happy Jackfield |
Dave O'Brien | Luke MacWade |
Charles Bronson | Sixty Jubel |
Yvette Duguay | Blossom |
Frank Richards | J.B. Backett |
Jack Kruschen | Andrews |
Don Anderson | Tabernacle Committee Member |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Shelley Winters | Sarah Wurble |
Keenan Wynn | Willy Wurble |
Dewey Martin | Daniel Norson |
Earl Holliman | Happy Jackfield |
Dave O'Brien | Luke MacWade |
Charles Bronson | Sixty Jubel |
Yvette Duguay | Blossom |
Frank Richards | J.B. Backett |
Jack Kruschen | Andrews |
Don Anderson | Tabernacle Committee Member |
Walter Bacon | Boxing Match Spectator |
Al Bain | Boxing Match Spectator |
David Bair | Young Reporter |
John Barton | Boxing Match Spectator |
Mary Bayless | Boxing Match Spectator |
Margaret Bert | Tabernacle Committee Member |
Paul Bradley | Boxing Match Spectator |
Paul Bryar | Ring Announcer |
Gordon Carveth | Boxing Match Spectator |
Harry Cody | Tabernacle Committee Member |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Sol Baer Fielding | Producer |