The Great Gildersleeve (1942)
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A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.
- Date of release
- 1942-12-17
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Gordon Douglas
- Collection
- The Great Gildersleeve Collection
Casting
- Harold Peary — Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve
- Freddie Mercer — Leroy Forrester
- Nancy Gates — Marjorie 'Margie' Forrester
- Jane Darwell — Aunt Emma Forrester
- Lillian Randolph — Birdie Scoggins
- Mary Field — Amelia Hooker
- Charles Arnt — Judge Horace Hooker
- Thurston Hall — Governor Jonathan Stafford
- George Carpenter — Frank Powers
- John Dilson — Mayor Appleton
- Syd Saylor — Phil, the carpenter
- Anne O'Neal — Martha, an old crow
Interesting facts
The Great Gildersleeve is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas. Based on the popular NBC radio series The Great Gildersleeve created by Leonard L. Levinson, which ran from 1941 to 1950, this is the first of four films in the Gildersleeve series produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jack Townley and Julien Josephson, and the film stars Harold Peary and Jane Darwell. Other films in the series are Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943), Gildersleeve on Broadway (1943) and Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944).
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