One Foot in Heaven is a 1941 American biographical film starring Fredric March

Fredric March

Fredric March was an American stage and film actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr...

, Martha Scott

Martha Scott

Martha Ellen Scott was an American actress best known for her roles as mother of the lead character in numerous films and television shows.-Early life:...

, Beulah Bondi

Beulah Bondi

Beulah Bondi was an American actress.Bondi began her acting career as a young child in theater, and after establishing herself as a stage actress, she reprised her role in Street Scene for the 1931 film version...

, Gene Lockhart

Gene Lockhart

Eugene "Gene" Lockhart was a Canadian character actor, singer, and playwright. He also wrote the lyrics to a number of popular songs.-Early life:...

 and Elisabeth Fraser

Elisabeth Fraser

Elisabeth Fraser , was a television, film and stage actress, best known for playing brassy blondes.Born as Elisabeth Fraser Jonker in Brooklyn, New York, Fraser began her acting career six weeks after graduating high school; she was cast as the ingenue in the Broadway production of There Shall Be...

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The movie was adapted by Casey Robinson

Casey Robinson

Casey Robinson was an American producer and director of mostly B movies and a screenwriter responsible for some of Bette Davis' most revered films...

 from the autobiography by Hartzell Spence

Hartzell Spence

John Hartzell Spence was an American writer and founding editor of Yank, the Army Weekly, a weekly magazine published by the United States military during World War II. He is credited with coining the term "pinup"....

. It was directed by Irving Rapper

Irving Rapper

Irving Rapper was a British film director. His most successful body of work is 10 films he made while under contract with Warner Brothers....

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It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture

Academy Award for Best Picture

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Plot

The film follows the life of a minister and his family and the various difficulties and people they encounter as they move from parish to parish. Minister Spence starts with a strict religious view of ministry but grows to appreciate the life of a younger generation and how he needs to minister to people, and not just going through rituals and customs.

Cast

• Fredric March
  Fredric March
  Fredric March was an American stage and film actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr...
  
   as William Spence
• Martha Scott
  Martha Scott
  Martha Ellen Scott was an American actress best known for her roles as mother of the lead character in numerous films and television shows.-Early life:...
  
   as Hope Morris Spence
• Beulah Bondi
  Beulah Bondi
  Beulah Bondi was an American actress.Bondi began her acting career as a young child in theater, and after establishing herself as a stage actress, she reprised her role in Street Scene for the 1931 film version...
  
   as Mrs. Lydia Sandow
• Gene Lockhart
  Gene Lockhart
  Eugene "Gene" Lockhart was a Canadian character actor, singer, and playwright. He also wrote the lyrics to a number of popular songs.-Early life:...
  
   as Preston Thurston
• Elisabeth Fraser
  Elisabeth Fraser
  Elisabeth Fraser , was a television, film and stage actress, best known for playing brassy blondes.Born as Elisabeth Fraser Jonker in Brooklyn, New York, Fraser began her acting career six weeks after graduating high school; she was cast as the ingenue in the Broadway production of There Shall Be...
  
   as Eileen Spence at Age 17
• Harry Davenport as Elias Samson
• Laura Hope Crews
  Laura Hope Crews
  Laura Hope Crews was a leading actress of the American stage in the first decades of the 20th century who is best remembered today for her later work as a character actress in motion pictures of the 1930s...
  
   as Mrs. Preston Thurston
• Grant Mitchell
  Grant Mitchell (actor)
  Grant Mitchell was an American stage actor on Broadway and character actor in many Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s...
  
   as Clayton Potter
• Moroni Olsen
  Moroni Olsen
  Moroni Olsen was an American actor.-Biography:Olsen was born in Ogden, Utah to Mormon parents Edward Arenholt Olsen and Marsha Hoverholst who named him after the Moroni found in the Book of Mormon. Some sources have claimed that Olsen's birth name was John Willard Clawson, or even John Willard...
  
   as Dr. John Romer
• Frankie Thomas
  Frankie Thomas
  Frank Marion Thomas, Jr. was an American actor, author and bridge-strategy expert who played both lead and supporting roles on Broadway, in films, in post-World War II radio, and in early television. He was best known for his starring role in Tom Corbett, Space Cadet.-Early years:Thomas was born...
  
   as Hartzell Spence at Age 18
• Jerome Cowan
  Jerome Cowan
  Jerome Palmer Cowan was an American film and television actor. At eighteen he joined a travelling stock company, shortly afterwards enlisting in the navy in World War I. After the war he returned to the stage and became a vaudeville headliner, then gained success on the New York stage...
  
   as Dr. Horrigan
• Ernest Cossart
  Ernest Cossart
  Ernest Cossart was a British-born Hollywood actor. Born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, his real name was Emil von Holst. He was the brother of composer Gustav Holst. His daughter was the actress Valeria Cossart....
  
   as Mr. John E. Morris
• Nana Bryant
  Nana Bryant
  Nana Bryant was an American film actress. She appeared in over 100 films between 1935 and 1955.She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died in Hollywood, California. Her grave is located at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery....
  
   as Mrs. Morris
• Carlotta Jelm as Eileen Spence at Age 11
• Peter Caldwell as Hartzell Spence at Age 10