His Family Tree

Irish Murphy (James Barton) arrives in Iowa, meeting his granddaughter (Marjorie Gateson), his politician-son's P-R man (Addison Randall), his daughter in-law (Margaret Callahan), who's been pretending he doesn't exist, and the campaign manager (Herman Bing), in His Family Tree, 1935.

From the opening scene, James Barton, by then a modest Vaudeville legend, as County Kerry pub owner "Patrick Murphy," making good his promise to cross to the pond to find out why his son's letters have stopped arriving, in His Family Tree, 1935.