The Great McGinty (1940)
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
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Brian Donlevy as Daniel 'Dan' McGinty |
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Muriel Angelus as Catharine McGinty |
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Akim Tamiroff as The Boss |
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Allyn Joslyn as George |
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William Demarest as Skeeters - The Politician |
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Louis Jean Heydt as Tommy Thompson |
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Harry Rosenthal as Louie - The Boss' Bodyguard |
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Arthur Hoyt as Mayor Wilfred H. Tillinghast |
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Libby Taylor as Bessy - The Maid |
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Thurston Hall as Mr. Maxwell |
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Steffi Duna as The Dancing Girl |
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Esther Howard as Madame Juliette La Jolla |
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Frank Moran as The Boss' Chauffeur |
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Jimmy Conlin as The Lookout - At Felgman's |
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Dewey Robinson as Benny Felgman |
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Donnie Kerr as Donnie - Catherine's Boy, Age 4 |
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Mary Thomas as Mary - Catherine's Girl, Age 6 |
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Drew Roddy as Donnie - Catherine's Boy, Age 9 |
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Sheila Sheldon as Mary - Catherine's Girl, Age 11 |
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George Anderson as Charlie - Cashier (uncredited) |
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Sylvia Andrew as Bit Role (uncredited) |
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William Benedict as Farm Boy (uncredited) |
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Sammy Blum as Bartender (uncredited) |
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Richard Carle as Dr. Jonas J. Jarvis - Card Player in Cantina (uncredited) |
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Ed Cassidy as Detective (uncredited) |
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Pauline Drake as Switchboard Operator (uncredited) |
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William Edmunds as Professor - Election Official at Gymnasium (uncredited) |
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Betty Farrington as Bit Role (uncredited) |
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Byron Foulger as Governor's Secretary (uncredited) |
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Duke Green as Double (uncredited) |
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Harry Hayden as Poll Watcher at Barber Shop (uncredited) |
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Lorimer Johnston as Old Crack-Pot (uncredited) |
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Charles McAvoy as Guard (uncredited) |
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Wanda McKay as Bit Role (uncredited) |
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George Melford as Senior Senator (uncredited) |
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Charles R. Moore as McGinty's Valet (uncredited) |
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Bert Moorhouse as Saloon Extra (uncredited) |
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Paul Newlan as Ugly Prisoner Demanding Quiet (uncredited) |
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Enrique Orona as Libertad, Mexican Boy (uncredited) |
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Emory Parnell as Policeman at Soup Kitchen (uncredited) |
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Jean Phillips as New Manicurist (uncredited) |
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Victor Potel as Cook (uncredited) |
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C.L. Sherwood as Guard at Jail (uncredited) |
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Lee Shumway as Mike - Cop (uncredited) |
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Walter Soderling as Election Official at Laundry (uncredited) |
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Larry Steers as Guest at Election Celebration (uncredited) |
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Kay Stewart as First Manicurist (uncredited) |
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Dorothy Vernon as Voting Registrar (uncredited) |
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Bess Wade as Bit Role (uncredited) |
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Robert Warwick as Opposition Speaker (uncredited) |
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Pat West as Pappia Saunders - Bail Bondsman (uncredited) |
| Production | William LeBaron | Executive Producer |
| Directing | Preston Sturges | Director |
| Art | A. Earl Hedrick | Art Direction |
| Art | A. E. Freudeman | Set Decoration |
| Writing | Preston Sturges | Writer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Edith Head | Costume Design |
| Production | Buddy G. DeSylva | Producer |
| Editing | Hugh Bennett | Editor |
| Sound | Friedrich Hollaender | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Hans Dreier | Art Direction |
| Camera | William C. Mellor | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Frank Thayer | Makeup Artist |
