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