The Great Morgan
Comedy
Release Date
January 1, 1945
Duration
57 min
Status
Released
Language
en
Overview
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)
Casts
Himself
Frank Morgan
K. F.
Leon Ames
Singer in 'Musical Masterpieces' (archive footage)
Carlos Ramírez
Singer in 'Musical Masterpieces' (archive footage)
Lucille Norman
Film Character (archive footage)
Eleanor Powell
Film Character (archive footage)
Virginia O'Brien
Mother in 'Our Old Car' (archive footage)
Jacqueline White
Bellamy B. Birdbrain in Badminton (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ben Blue
Film Character (uncredited)
Rand Brooks
Roger the Valet (uncredited)
George Chandler
Film Character (uncredited)
Inez Cooper
Actor in Badminton (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ken Davidson
Tommy Dorsey (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tommy Dorsey
Cedric Gibbons (uncredited)
Cedric Gibbons
Film Character (uncredited)
Dell Henderson
Irene (uncredited)
Irene
Studio Executive (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Narrator in 'Our Old Car' (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Nesbitt
Film Character (uncredited)
William Newell
William Powell (voice) (uncredited)
William Powell
Buddy Rich - Drums (archive footage) (uncredited)
Buddy Rich
Douglas Shearer (uncredited)
Douglas Shearer
Narrator in 'Badminton' (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Pete Smith
Father in Passing Parade (archive footage) (uncredited)
Arthur Space
Officer Donohue (archive footage) (uncredited)
William Tannen
Vince, Film Cutter (uncredited)
Billy Wayne
Actor in Badminton (archive footage) (uncredited)
Joe Watters
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