Stars in My Crown (1950)

7.0/10 90 min Drama Western

Overview

An orphaned man recalls his upbringing with his aunt and her husband, the parson, in a small Western town during the Reconstruction.

Cast

Joel McCrea

Josiah Doziah Gray

Ellen Drew

Harriet Gray

Dean Stockwell

John Kenyon

Alan Hale

Jed Isbell

Lewis Stone

Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Sr.

James Mitchell

Dr. Daniel Kalbert Harris, Jr.

Amanda Blake

Faith Radmore Samuels

Juano Hernández

Uncle Famous Prill

Charles Kemper

Prof. Sam Houston Jones

Connie Gilchrist

Sarah Isbell

Ed Begley

Lon Backett

Jack Lambert

Perry Lokey

Arthur Hunnicutt

Chloroform Wiggins

Marshall Thompson

Narrator (adult John Kenyon) (voice)

James Arness

Rolfe Isbell (uncredited)

Chuck Courtney

Jed Isbell (uncredited)

Adeline De Walt Reynolds

Granny Gailbraith (uncredited)

Edmund Glover

Clyde Chapman (uncredited)

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