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Judge Priest

film by Ford [1934]
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    …Aunt Dilsey, in John Ford’s Judge Priest (1934). The movie gave her the opportunity to sing a duet with humorist Will Rogers. She gained wider notice with The Little Colonel (1935), starring Shirley Temple and Lionel Barrymore, in which she was Mom Beck, a genial cook for a family in…

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    …Aunt Dilsey, in John Ford’s Judge Priest (1934). The movie gave her the opportunity to sing a duet with humorist Will Rogers. She gained wider notice with The Little Colonel (1935), starring Shirley Temple and Lionel Barrymore, in which she was Mom Beck, a genial cook for a family in…

    Read More