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The Great McGinty
1940, Aug 01
1h 22m
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Directed by
Preston Sturges
Written by
Preston Sturges
Larry Steers
Guest at Election Celebration (uncredited)
Jean Phillips
New Manicurist (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
Voting Registrar (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
Election Official at Laundry (uncredited)
Muriel Angelus
Catharine McGinty
Paul Newlan
Ugly Prisoner Demanding Quiet (uncredited)
William Demarest
Skeeters - The Politician
Brian Donlevy
Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
Akim Tamiroff
The Boss
William Benedict
Farm Boy (uncredited)
Steffi Duna
The Dancing Girl
Kay Stewart
First Manicurist (uncredited)
Robert Warwick
Opposition Speaker (uncredited)
Louis Jean Heydt
Tommy Thompson
Allyn Joslyn
George
Pat West
Pappia Saunders - Bail Bondsman (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Policeman at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)
Arthur Hoyt
Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
Harry Hayden
Poll Watcher at Barber Shop (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Saloon Extra (uncredited)
Jimmy Conlin
The Lookout - At Felgman's
Esther Howard
Madame Juliette La Jolla
Thurston Hall
Mr. Maxwell
Wanda McKay
Bit Role (uncredited)
Ed Cassidy
Detective (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
Mike - Cop (uncredited)
Sammy Blum
Bartender (uncredited)
Victor Potel
Cook (uncredited)
Richard Carle
Dr. Jonas J. Jarvis - Card Player in Cantina (uncredited)
William Edmunds
Professor - Election Official at Gymnasium (uncredited)
Frank Moran
The Boss' Chauffeur
Dewey Robinson
Benny Felgman
Libby Taylor
Bessy - The Maid
Charles R. Moore
McGinty's Valet (uncredited)
Lorimer Johnston
Old Crack-Pot (uncredited)
Sylvia Andrew
Bit Role (uncredited)
Harry Rosenthal
Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard
Donnie Kerr
Donnie - Catherine's Boy, Age 4
Mary Thomas
Mary - Catherine's Girl, Age 6
Drew Roddy
Donnie - Catherine's Boy, Age 9
Sheila Sheldon
Mary - Catherine's Girl, Age 11
George Anderson
Charlie - Cashier (uncredited)
Pauline Drake
Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
Betty Farrington
Bit Role (uncredited)
Duke Green
Double (uncredited)
Charles McAvoy
Guard (uncredited)
Enrique Orona
Libertad, Mexican Boy (uncredited)
C.L. Sherwood
Guard at Jail (uncredited)
Bess Wade
Bit Role (uncredited)
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