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