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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
Dorothy Vernon
Voting Registrar (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
Election Official at Laundry (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
Paul Newlan
Ugly Prisoner Demanding Quiet (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
Policeman at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)
Brian Donlevy
Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
Richard Carle
Dr. Jonas J. Jarvis - Card Player in Cantina (uncredited)
Muriel Angelus
Catharine McGinty
William Demarest
Skeeters - The Politician
Robert Warwick
Opposition Speaker (uncredited)
William Benedict
Farm Boy (uncredited)
Akim Tamiroff
The Boss
Kay Stewart
First Manicurist (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Saloon Extra (uncredited)
Louis Jean Heydt
Tommy Thompson
Thurston Hall
Mr. Maxwell
Allyn Joslyn
George
William Edmunds
Professor - Election Official at Gymnasium (uncredited)
Jean Phillips
New Manicurist (uncredited)
Esther Howard
Madame Juliette La Jolla
Wanda McKay
Bit Role (uncredited)
Larry Steers
Guest at Election Celebration (uncredited)
Dewey Robinson
Benny Felgman
Charles R. Moore
McGinty's Valet (uncredited)
Arthur Hoyt
Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
Lee Shumway
Mike - Cop (uncredited)
Ed Cassidy
Detective (uncredited)
Victor Potel
Cook (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
Poll Watcher at Barber Shop (uncredited)
Steffi Duna
The Dancing Girl
Jimmy Conlin
The Lookout - At Felgman's
Frank Moran
The Boss' Chauffeur
Sammy Blum
Bartender (uncredited)
Libby Taylor
Bessy - The Maid
Pat West
Pappia Saunders - Bail Bondsman (uncredited)
Harry Rosenthal
Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard
Lorimer Johnston
Old Crack-Pot (uncredited)
Sylvia Andrew
Bit Role (uncredited)
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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