Boys Town (1938 film)

Boys Town
Original film poster
Directed by	Norman Taurog
Produced by	John W. Considine Jr.
Written by	Dore Schary Eleanore Griffin John Meehan
Starring	Spencer Tracy Mickey Rooney Henry Hull
Cinematography	Sidney Wagner
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Running time	96 min.
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Boys Town (1938) is a biographical drama film based on Father Edward J. Flanagan's work with a group of disadvantaged and delinquent boys in a home that he founded and named "Boys Town". It starred Spencer Tracy as Father Edward J. Flanagan, and Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Gene Reynolds, Edward Norris, and Addison Richards.

The film was written by Dore Schary, Eleanore Griffin and John Meehan, and was directed by Norman Taurog.

The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Norman Taurog was nominated for Best Director. It won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Tracy, and the Best Writing, Original Story for Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary.

In 1941, MGM made a sequel, Men of Boys Town, with Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney reprising their roles from the earlier film.

External links

Boys Town at the Internet Movie Database
Boys Town at Allmovie
Boys Town at the TCM Movie Database
[1] Official website about the movie

v • d • e The films of Norman Taurog

1920s	Lucky Boy • The Diplomats • In Holland • The Medicine Men

1930s	Troopers Three (with B. Reeves Eason) • Sunny Skies • Hot Curves • Follow the Leader • Finn and Hattie • Skippy • Newly Rich • Huckleberry Finn • Sooky • Hold 'Em Jail • The Phantom President • If I Had a Million (segments "Prologue" and "Epilogue") • A Bedtime Story • The Way to Love • We're Not Dressing • Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch • College Rhythm • The Big Broadcast of 1936 • Strike Me Pink • Rhythm on the Range • Reunion • Fifty Roads to Town • You Can't Have Everything • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • Mad About Music • Boys Town • The Girl Downstairs • Lucky Night

1940s	Broadway Melody of 1940 • Young Tom Edison • Little Nellie Kelly • Men of Boys Town • Design for Scandal • Are Husbands Necessary? • A Yank at Eton • Presenting Lily Mars • Girl Crazy (with Busby Berkley) • The Hoodlum Saint • The Beginning or the End • The Bride Goes Wild • Big City • Words and Music • That Midnight Kiss

1950s	Please Believe Me • The Toast of New Orleans • Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone • Rich, Young and Pretty • Room for One More • Jumping Jacks • The Stooge • The Stars Are Singing • The Caddy • Living It Up • You're Never Too Young • The Birds and the Bees • Pardners • Bundle of Joy • The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown • Onionhead • Don't Give Up the Ship

1960s	Visit to a Small Planet • G.I. Blues • All Hands on Deck • Blue Hawaii • Girls! Girls! Girls! • It Happened at the World's Fair • Palm Springs Weekend • Tickle Me • Sergeant Dead Head • Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine • Spinout • Double Trouble • Speedway • Live a Little, Love a Little

Television	Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954) (with Alan Handley, Christian Nyby, Roy Rowland, King Vidor, William A. Wellman and Bud Yorkin)

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