Our Vines have Tender Grapes

Our Vines have Tender Grapes, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes is an American motion picture released in 1945, directed by Roy Rowland and starring Edward G. Robinson and Margaret O’Brien. The movie is based on the novel by George Victor Martin, about the Norse descended residents of a small Wisconsin farming community. The screenplay was written by Dalton Trumbo, who later in life was a victim of the McCarthy era Hollywood blacklist.

Cast of Our Vines have Tender Grapes

* Edward G. Robinson as Martinius Jacobson
* Margaret O’Brien as Selma Jacobson
* James Craig as Nels ‘Editor’ Halverson
* Frances Gifford as Viola Johnson
* Agnes Moorehead as Bruna Jacobson
* Morris Carnovsky as Bjorn Bjornson
* Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins as Arnold Hanson
* Sara Haden as Mrs. Bjorn Bjornson
* Greta Granstedt as Mrs. Lars Faraassen
* Dorothy Morris as Ingeborg Jensen
* Arthur Space as Pete Hanson, Arnold’s Dad
* Elizabeth Russell as Mrs. Kola Hanson
* Louis Jean Heydt as Lars Faraassen
* Charles Middleton as Kurt Jensen, Ingeborg’s Dad
* Francis Pierlot as Fuller Junction’s Minister

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Our Vines have Tender Grapes was first posted on December 6, 2009 at 7:36 pm.