The Merry Monahans
Opis filmu
Opis oryginalny: angielski
The Merry Monahans is one of the higher-budgeted Universal musicals of the 1940s, even though the storyline is strictly grade-B material. During the first two decades of the 20th century the film concerns a family vaudeville troupe headed by patriarch Pete Monahan (Jack Oakie). Because of his love affair with the bottle, Pete manages to get himself and his family blacklisted from every major vaude house in the country. Though Pete's kids Jimmy (Donald O'Connor) and Patsy (Peggy Ryan) love their dad, they're forced to break away from the act and go off on their own to survive. Eventually, the whole gang is reunited in a shamelessly lachrymose musical finale. Producer-scripters Michael Fessier and Ernest Pagano, whose other works include such offbeat comedies as San Diego I Love You, Frontier Gal and That's the Spirit, manage to keep the proceedings relatively cliché-free, though it's an uphill climb.
Obsada
- Donald O'Connor jako Jimmy Monahan
- Peggy Ryan jako Patsy Monahan
- Jack Oakie jako Pete Monahan
- Ann Blyth jako Sheila DeRoyce
- Rosemary DeCamp jako Lillian Miles, aka Lillian DeRoyce
- John Miljan jako Arnold Pembroke, Has-Been Matinee Idol
- Gavin Muir jako Weldon Laydon, Broadway Talent Scout
- Isabel Jewell jako Rose, aka Rose Monahan,unscrupulous Chorus Girl
- Ian Wolfe jako Clerk
- Robert Homans jako Policeman
- Marion Martin jako Soubrette
- Lloyd Ingraham jako Judge