Tennessee Champ (1954)
March 3, 1954Release Date
Tennessee Champ (1954)
March 3, 1954Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Shelley Winters
Sarah Wurble
Keenan Wynn
Willy Wurble
Dewey Martin
Daniel Norson
Earl Holliman
Happy Jackfield
Dave O'Brien
Luke MacWade
Charles Bronson
Sixty Jubel
Yvette Duguay
Blossom
Frank Richards
J.B. Backett
Jack Kruschen
Andrews
Paul Bryar
Ring Announcer
Don Anderson
Tabernacle Committee Member
Dick Haynes
Reporter
Louis Mason
Hotel Clerk
Dan White
Baptist Minister
Howard Wright
Mr. Robinson
Sol Baer Fielding
Producer
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Tennessee Champ is a 1954 American drama film with strong Christian overtones directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Shelley Winters, Keenan Wynn, Dewey Martin, and Charles Bronson
Mounted as a title to fill out double and triple bills (a B-movie), Tennessee Champ was one of several films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shot in its pet process of Ansco Color, a ruddy-looking process employed on the same year's Brigadoon.
The film marked a return to Hollywood for star Shelley Winters, who hadn't appeared in a film in almost two years because of her marriage to Vittorio Gassman (which ended in June 1954) and the birth of their child, Vittoria. The lull came just as she seemed to be on an upswing after roles in Winchester '73 (1950), Phone Call from a Stranger (1952), and her breakthrough tragic performance in A Place in the Sun (1951).