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Merton of the Movies (11-Oct-1947)

Director: Robert Alton

Writers: George Wells; Lou Breslow

From novel by: Harry Leon Wilson

From a play by: George S. Kaufman; Marc Connelly

Musical Score: David Snell

Producer: Albert Lewis

Keywords: Comedy, Hollywood

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Leon Ames
Actor
20-Jan-1902 12-Oct-1993 Character actor, a SAG founder
Douglas Fowley
Actor
30-May-1911 21-May-1998 Doc Holliday on TV's Wyatt Earp
Gloria Grahame
Actor
28-Nov-1923 5-Oct-1981 The Bad and the Beautiful
Hugo Haas
Actor
18-Feb-1901 1-Dec-1968 King Solomon's Mines
Alan Mowbray
Actor
18-Aug-1896 25-Mar-1969 Founding member, Screen Actors Guild
Virginia O'Brien
Actor
18-Apr-1919 16-Jan-2001 The Big Store
Red Skelton
Comic
18-Jul-1913 17-Sep-1997 The Red Skelton Show

CAST

Red Skelton   ...   Merton Gill
Virginia O'Brien   ...   Phyllis Montague
Gloria Grahame   ...   Beulah Baxter
Leon Ames   ...   Lawrence Rupert
Alan Mowbray   ...   Frank Mulvaney
Charles D. Brown   ...   Jeff Baird
Hugo Haas   ...   Von Strutt
Harry Hayden   ...   Mr. Gashwiler
Tom Trout   ...   Marty
Douglas Fowley   ...   Phil
Dick Wessel   ...   Chick

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