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Knute Rockne–All American

film by Bacon [1940]

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In Lloyd Bacon: Warner Brothers
Knute Rockne–All American (1940) was one of the era’s best sports biopics, while Honeymoon for Three (1941) was an unremarkable comedy. Bacon got his one chance to direct Errol Flynn in Footsteps in the Dark (1941), which featured Flynn not as a swashbuckler or a…
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Howard

In William K. Howard: Later films
Howard was fired from Knute Rockne–All American (1940), and Lloyd Bacon completed the classic biopic. Howard’s last credits were mostly modest B-film crime dramas, including Money and the Woman (1940) and Bullets for O’Hara (1941). In 1943 he directed James Cagney in Johnny Come Lately, but it was largely…
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Rockne

In Knute Rockne
…culminating in the 1940 film, Knute Rockne—All-American (with Ronald Reagan playing George Gipp), guaranteed his immortality as the most famous of American football coaches.
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