JOEL MCCREA FILM MASTERPOST
Here are most of the eighty-plus movies starring the cowboy hero, matinee idol, and wonderfully understated light comedian Joel McCrea, whom Katharine Hepburn once called “the most underrated actor of his day.” If you’re unfamiliar with his work, you’ll want to start with Preston Sturges’s 1941 masterpiece Sullivan’s Travels, a perfect encapsulation of the decency and idealism that typified Joel’s screen persona and, as you’ll see, one of the great unsung performances in Hollywood history.
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Don’t know where to start?
ICONIC MOVIES: Sullivan’s Travels, The More the Merrier, Ride the High Country
KEY PERFORMANCES: Foreign Correspondent, The Palm Beach Story, Stars in My Crown
Dynamite (1929) - S/D The Silver Horde (1930) - S | S Girls About Town (1931) - S/D Kept Husbands (1931) - T | S | S/D Bird of Paradise (1932) - T | S The Lost Squadron (1932) - S/D The Most Dangerous Game (1932) - T | T | S | S/D Rockabye (1932) - S/D The Sport Parade (1932) - R/B Bed of Roses (1933) - S/D Chance at Heaven (1933) - S/D One Man's Journey (1933) - S/D The Silver Cord (1933) - S/D Gambling Lady (1934) - S/D | T The Richest Girl in the World (1934) - S/D Barbary Coast (1935) - S/D | T | S Our Little Girl (1935) [colorized, sorry!] - R/B | S Private Worlds (1935) - S/D Woman Wanted (1935) - S/D Adventure in Manhattan (1936) - S/D Banjo on My Knee (1936) - S/D | S Come and Get It (1936) - S/D These Three (1936) - S/D | T Two in a Crowd (1936) - S/D Dead End (1937) - T | S/D Internes Can't Take Money (1937) - S/D Wells Fargo (1937) - T | S/D | S Woman Chases Man (1937) - S/D Three Blind Mice (1938) - S/D | S Youth Takes a Fling (1938) - S/D Espionage Agent (1939) - S/D They Shall Have Music (1939) - S/D Union Pacific (1939) - S/D | T Foreign Correspondent (1940) - R/B | T | T | T | S/D | S He Married His Wife (1940) - S/D | S Primrose Path (1940) - T | S/D Sullivan's Travels (1941) - R/B | T | T | T | S/D The Great Man's Lady (1942) - T | S/D The Palm Beach Story (1942) - R/B | T | T | S/D The More the Merrier (1943) - R/B | T | S | S/D Buffalo Bill (1944) - T | S/D The Great Moment (1944) - S/D The Unseen (1945) - S/D The Virginian (1946) - S/D | T Ramrod (1947) - T | T | S/D Four Faces West (1948) - T | S/D Colorado Territory (1949) - T | S/D South of St. Louis (1949) - T | T | S/D Frenchie (1950) - T | S/D The Outriders (1950) - R/B | S/D Saddle Tramp (1950) - T | S/D Stars in My Crown (1950) - R/B | T | S/D Cattle Drive (1951) - S The San Francisco Story (1952) - S/D The Lone Hand (1953) - S Black Horse Canyon (1954) - S/D | S Border River (1954) - T | S/D Stranger on Horseback (1955) - R/B | S/D Wichita (1955) - R/B | T | S/D The First Texan (1956) - S/D Gunsight Ridge (1957) - S/D The Oklahoman (1957) - S/D The Tall Stranger (1957) - T | S/D | S Trooper Hook (1957) - S/D | STREAM Cattle Empire (1958) - S/D Fort Massacre (1958) - T | S/D The Gunfight at Dodge City (1959) - S/D Ride the High Country (1962) - R/B | T | T | S/D Mustang Country (1976) - T | S/D | SRADIO EXTRAS!
Lux Radio Theatre: The Brat (1936) Lux Radio Theatre: Hands Across the Table (1937) Lux Radio Theatre: Forsaking All Others (1938) Screen Guild Theater: The Male Animal (1942) Old Gold Comedy Theater: My Favorite Wife (1945) Cavalcade of America: The Camels Are Coming (1946) Lux Radio Theatre: Smoky (1947) Cavalcade of America: Sheriff Teddy (1948) Tales of the Texas Rangers (1950-1952)
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