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    H.M. Pulham, Esquire - (Original trailer)

    Robert Young plays a stuffy businessman who livens things up by having a fling with Hedy Lamarr. Directed by King Vidor.

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H.M. Pulham, Esquire - (Original Trailer)

H.M. Pulham, Esquire - (Original Trailer)
Robert Young plays a stuffy businessman who livens things up by having a fling with Hedy Lamarr. Directed by King Vidor.>
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Invited by old-flame Marvin Ransome n`ee Myles (Hedy Lamarr, her first appearance) to visit in a Boston club, forty-something Harry (Robert Young) hesitates, then returns home to wife Kay (Ruth Hussey), in King Vidor's film from the John P. Marquand novel, H.M. Pulham Esq., 1941.>
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First World War vet Harry (Robert Young) is introduced by pal Bill (Van Heflin) to his New York ad agency boss Bullard (Douglas Wood), instantly hired, then meets copy writer Marvin (Hedy Lamarr), inside a flashback in King Vidor's H.M. Pulham Esq., 1941.>
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Harvard football star "Bo Jo" (Leif Erickson) offers expansive comments on the Dartmouth game ca. 1916, non-jock Harry (Robert Young) attentive, his acquaintance Bill (Van Heflin) checking in, Joe (Phil Brown) joining them in further discussion, in King Vidor's H.M. Pulham Esq., 1941.>
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