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