The Green Hand Trailer (1940)

12 January 1940 Drama 29 mins

In 1932, University of Georgia agriculture professor Paul W. Chapman wrote a novel about the Future Farmers of America (FFA), The Green Hand, in which joining FFA improved the life of a young delinquent, Fred Dale. In 1939, Sears-Roebuck & Co. sponsored the filmed version of The Green Hand and shot the film in Athens, Georgia, casting townfolk and university professors as its main characters. The main character, Fred Dale, is played by UGA sophomore Alpha Fowler, Jr., the son of a state legislator. A "big man on campus" in the 1940s, Fowler, Jr. went on to his own career as a state legislator. Other men prominent in Georgia and UGA agriculture appeared in the film.

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Cast

Paul Chapman as Prof. Marshall Anderson

M. D. Mobley as Walter Langford

Alpha Fowler, Jr. as Fred Dale

Mrs. J.W. Bailey as Fred's mother

Betty Johnson as Sally May Martin

Leo F. Johnson as Sally's father

W.R. Coile as Judge of the Superior Court

G. P. Donaldson as Jack Lindsey

Ralph Shumake as Willard Henderson

Tommy Tucker, Jr. as Red Watterson

Dr. Milton P. Jarnigan as Wilson Dominick

Dr. Henry A Shinn as Solicitor General

J. Hunter Wilson as Hiram Smithfield

Dr. O.C. Aderhold as Harold Locke

Scott Chamblee as Spike Bivins

Mrs. Neil McCordle as Nurse Shaw

Crew

Paul W. Chapman Story

International Releases Dates

United States 12 January 1940

Production Companies

Venard Organization

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