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Brigham Young (1940) was a Biographical - Historical Film directed by Henry Hathaway and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Kenneth Macgowan.

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Brigham Young: [to his people after reaching the Great Salt Lake] This is the place.


Jonathan Kent: Even though we might be the last wagon, we'd never be the first to fall out.


Mary Ann Young: You're dead set against California, aren't you?
Brigham Young: You know human nature. Take a crowd of people to a place of milk and honey and in six months time, they won't be worth shooting.


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Moroni Olsen was the only principal cast member who was a Mormon. Dean Jagger was not a member of that church when he portrayed its leader, but he did join some 32 years later.
Charles Halton is in studio records/casting call lists for the role of "Prosecutor," but that role was played by Marc Lawrence.
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