The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Linda Darnell	...	Virginia Clemm
	Shepperd Strudwick	...	Edgar Allan Poe (as John Shepperd)
	Virginia Gilmore	...	Elmira Royster
	Jane Darwell	...	Mrs. Mariah Clemm
	Mary Howard	...	Frances Allan
	Frank Conroy	...	John Allan
	Harry Morgan	...	Ebenezer Burling (as Henry Morgan)
	Walter Kingsford	...	T.W. White
	Morris Ankrum	...	Mr. Graham
	Skippy Wanders	...	Poe, age 3
	Freddie Mercer	...	Poe, age 12
	Erville Alderson	...	Burke the Schoolmaster
	Peggy McIntyre	...	Elmira, age 10
	William Bakewell	...	Hugh Pleasant (as William Bakewell Jr.)
	Frank Melton	...	Turner Dixon

Storyline

Edgar Allen Poe led an unhappy childhood, broken only by the unceasing devotion of his foster mother, Mrs. Frances Allan, whose loving ministrations gave him courage to carry out his desire to write. His first love was Elmira Royster, and though she married another while he was at the University of Virginia, he could never purge his thoughts of her and, under the influence of her spell, he poured out the deepest passions of his heart. After a discouraging period during which he was disowned by his foster father and lost his appointment to West Point, he found the love that tamed his restless heart with Virginia Clemm. After he and Virginia married, Poe did his greatest creative work, writing for the Southern Literary Messenger and Graham's Magazine. Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>  

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