The Great Morgan
The Great Morgan
Release: 1945-01-01
·Runtime: 57m
·★ 5.5
Comedy
Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely unrelated short subjects and musical numbers, interspersed with a repeated loop of a scene from some melodrama. (Contains in their entirety the shorts, "Musical Masterpieces," "Our Old Car," and "Badminton," as well as clips from other projects)
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
William Powell
as William Powell (voice) (uncredited)
Pete Smith
as Narrator in 'Badminton' (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Leon Ames
as K. F.
Carlos Ramírez
as Singer in 'Musical Masterpieces' (archive footage)
Ben Blue
as Bellamy B. Birdbrain in Badminton (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Chandler
as Roger the Valet (uncredited)
Cedric Gibbons
as Cedric Gibbons (uncredited)
Rand Brooks
as Film Character (uncredited)
Inez Cooper
as Film Character (uncredited)
John Nesbitt
as Narrator in 'Our Old Car' (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Douglas Shearer
as Douglas Shearer (uncredited)
Billy Wayne
as Vince, Film Cutter (uncredited)
Frank Morgan
as Himself
Eleanor Powell
as Film Character (archive footage)
Virginia O'Brien
as Film Character (archive footage)
Jacqueline White
as Mother in 'Our Old Car' (archive footage)
William Newell
as Film Character (uncredited)
Arthur Space
as Father in Passing Parade (archive footage) (uncredited)
William Tannen
as Officer Donohue (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lucille Norman
as Singer in 'Musical Masterpieces' (archive footage)
Tommy Dorsey
as Tommy Dorsey (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dell Henderson
as Film Character (uncredited)
Irene
as Irene (uncredited)
