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Kentucky
Kentucky
Directed by	David Butler
Written by	Lamar Trotti; John Taintor Foote
Produced by	Gene Markey; Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring	Loretta Young; Richard Greene; Walter Brennan
Cinematography	Ernest Palmer; Ray Rennahan
Edited by	Irene Morra
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	20th Century Fox
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	December 30, 1938 (U.S.);
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Kentucky is a 1938 American drama sports film with Loretta Young, Richard Greene, and Walter Brennan. It was directed by David Butler.^[1] It is a Romeo and Juliet story of lovers Jack and Sally, set amidst Kentucky horseracing, in which a family feud goes back to the Civil War and is kept alive by Sally's Uncle Peter.

Plot

During the Civil War, Thad Goodwin Sr. (Charles Waldron) of Elmtree Farm, a local horse breeder, resists Capt. John Dillon (Douglass Dumbrille) and a company of Union soldiers confiscating his prize horses. He is killed by Dillon, and his youngest son, Peter (Bobs Watson), cries when the soldiers ride away with the horses.

75 years later, in 1938, Peter (Walter Brennan), now a crotchety old man, still resides on Elmtree Farm and raises horses with his niece Sally (Loretta Young). Dillon's grandson Jack (Richard Greene) and Sally meet, her not knowing that he is a Dillon. Sally's father, Thad Goodwin Jr., dies when his speculation on cotton drops. The Goodwins are forced to auction off nearly all their horses, and Jack offers his services to Sally as a trainer of their last prize horse, "Bessie's Boy", who is later injured.

Sally loses the farm, and Mr. Dillon makes good on his original bet with Thad Jr. and offers her any two-year-old on his farm. At her uncle's insistence, she reluctantly selects "Blue Grass" instead of the favorite, "Postman", and Jack trains him for the Derby. She learns of Jack's real identity and fires him as a trainer. During the race, Blue Grass runs neck and neck with Postman, but Blue Grass wins thanks to Jack's advice. Sally embraces Jack, but Peter collapses before the decoration ceremony and dies. At his funeral, Dillon eulogizes him and the American life of the past as "The Grand Old Man of the American Turf".

Cast

Loretta Young as Sally Goodwin
Richard Greene as Jack Dillon
Walter Brennan as Peter Goodwin
Douglass Dumbrille as John Dillon – 1861
Karen Morley as Mrs. Goodwin – 1861
Moroni Olsen as John Dillon – 1938
Russell Hicks as Thad Goodwin Sr. – 1861
Willard Robertson as Bob Slocum
Charles Waldron as Thad Goodwin – 1938
George Reed as Ben
Bobs Watson as Peter Goodwin – 1861
Delmar Watson as Thad Goodwin Jr. – 1861
Leona Roberts as Grace Goodwin
Charles Lane as Auctioneer
Charles Middleton as Southerner
Harry Hayden as Racing Secretary
Robert Middlemass as Track Official
Madame Sul-Te-Wan as Lily
Cliff Clark as Melish
Meredith Howard as Susie May
Charles Trowbridge as Doctor
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson as Groom
Stanley Andrews as Presiding Judge
Blue Washington as Bill
Howard Hickman as Banker (uncredited)
Larry Steers as Thaddeus' Friend (uncredited)
Lillian Yarbo as Magnolia (uncredited)

Notes

Walter Brennan won his second Oscar (Best Supporting Actor) in his role as Peter Goodwin.

References

^ "Motion Picture Heads And Movie Stars At Louisville". Daily Racing Form at University of Kentucky Archives. May 8, 1939. Retrieved February 15, 2019.