One Foot in Heaven

Iowa, 1917, Methodist minister Spence (Fredric March) attends the William S. Hart picture The Silent Man with his son, intending to illustrate how the medium is harmful to his character, only to be won over by the wholesome story, another fact-based incident in Warner Bros.’One Foot In Heaven. 1941.

Ontario, 1904, doctor-in-training Bill Spence (Fredric March) has just interrupted his fianceè (Martha Scott) and her parents (Ernest Cossart, Nana Bryant) savoring the newspaper announcement of their engagement with news of a change of plans, in the fact-based biography One Foot In Heaven, 1941.

At their first parsonage in Iowa, Canadian minister William Spence (Fredric March) and his bride Hope (Martha Scott), who stayed with him when he gave up his promising medical career, lament their reduced circumstances, in the biography based on the book by Spence’s son, One Foot In Heaven. 1941.

A minister and his wife cope with the problems of church life in the 20th century in One Foot in Heaven (1941) starring Fredric March and Martha Scott.