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Jones also took home an Oscar, playing against type in a sultry turn as a minister's "fallen" daughter who became Gantry's lover.
John Farr: Burt Lancaster: Always Larger Than Life John Farr 2011
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Jones also took home an Oscar, playing against type in a sultry turn as a minister's "fallen" daughter who became Gantry's lover.
John Farr: Burt Lancaster: Always Larger Than Life John Farr 2011
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Jones also took home an Oscar, playing against type in a sultry turn as a minister's "fallen" daughter who became Gantry's lover.
John Farr: Burt Lancaster: Always Larger Than Life John Farr 2011
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Jones also took home an Oscar, playing against type in a sultry turn as a minister's daughter who became Gantry's lover.
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The movie also provides development of his character -- all the way up to the conclusion, when a fire engulfs the revival hall, killing scores of the faithful, including Gantry's preaching partner (and inamorata) Sharon Falconer.
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His creator, novelist Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951), was a gloomy alcoholic Midwesterner with a personal life just as rootless and messy as Gantry's.
Lewis's Profane Preacher Wilfred M. McClay 2007
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But the book closes with Gantry's congregation loudly affirming his innocence and his promise that "We shall yet make these United States a moral nation!"
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The book related Gantry's picaresque wanderings from one ministry to another, always looking out for the main chance, always complicating his life with amorous dalliances, always ready to beat a hasty retreat, always emerging from his scrapes with ambitions undimmed.
Lewis's Profane Preacher Wilfred M. McClay 2007
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The book related Gantry's picaresque wanderings from one ministry to another, always looking out for the main chance, always complicating his life with amorous dalliances, always ready to beat a hasty retreat, always emerging from his scrapes with ambitions undimmed.
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His creator was a gloomy alcoholic Midwesterner with a personal life just as rootless and messy as Gantry's.
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