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The Great McGinty

The Great McGinty1940

★6.982 minComedy

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...

Director

Preston Sturges

Writer

Preston Sturges

Score

Friedrich Hollaender

Stars

Brian Donlevy Muriel Angelus Akim Tamiroff

Cast51

Brian Donlevy
as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty
Muriel Angelus
as Catharine McGinty
Akim Tamiroff
as The Boss
Allyn Joslyn
as George
William Demarest
as Skeeters - The Politician
Louis Jean Heydt
as Tommy Thompson
Harry Rosenthal
as Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard
Arthur Hoyt
as Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast
Libby Taylor
as Bessy - The Maid
Thurston Hall
as Mr. Maxwell
Steffi Duna
as The Dancing Girl
Esther Howard
as Madame Juliette La Jolla
Frank Moran
as The Boss' Chauffeur
Jimmy Conlin
as The Lookout - At Felgman's
Dewey Robinson
as Benny Felgman
D
Donnie Kerr
as Donnie - Catherine's Boy, Age 4
M
Mary Thomas
as Mary - Catherine's Girl, Age 6
D
Drew Roddy
as Donnie - Catherine's Boy, Age 9
S
Sheila Sheldon
as Mary - Catherine's Girl, Age 11
G
George Anderson
as Charlie - Cashier (uncredited)
Sylvia Andrew
as Bit Role (uncredited)
William Benedict
as Farm Boy (uncredited)
Sammy Blum
as Bartender (uncredited)
Richard Carle
as Dr. Jonas J. Jarvis - Card Player in Cantina (uncredited)
Ed Cassidy
as Detective (uncredited)
P
Pauline Drake
as Switchboard Operator (uncredited)
William Edmunds
as Professor - Election Official at Gymnasium (uncredited)
Betty Farrington
as Bit Role (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
as Governor's Secretary (uncredited)
D
Duke Green
as Double (uncredited)
Harry Hayden
as Poll Watcher at Barber Shop (uncredited)
Lorimer Johnston
as Old Crack-Pot (uncredited)
Charles McAvoy
as Guard (uncredited)
Wanda McKay
as Bit Role (uncredited)
George Melford
as Senior Senator (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore
as McGinty's Valet (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
as Saloon Extra (uncredited)
Paul Newlan
as Ugly Prisoner Demanding Quiet (uncredited)
E
Enrique Orona
as Libertad, Mexican Boy (uncredited)
Emory Parnell
as Policeman at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)
Jean Phillips
as New Manicurist (uncredited)
Victor Potel
as Cook (uncredited)
C
C.L. Sherwood
as Guard at Jail (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
as Mike - Cop (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
as Election Official at Laundry (uncredited)
Larry Steers
as Guest at Election Celebration (uncredited)
Kay Stewart
as First Manicurist (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
as Voting Registrar (uncredited)
B
Bess Wade
as Bit Role (uncredited)
Robert Warwick
as Opposition Speaker (uncredited)
Pat West
as Pappia Saunders - Bail Bondsman (uncredited)

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