The Great Morgan (1945)
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)
- Date of release
- 1945-01-01
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 57m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Nat Perrin
Casting
- Frank Morgan — Himself
- Leon Ames — K. F.
- Carlos Ramírez — Singer in 'Musical Masterpieces' (archive footage)
- Lucille Norman — Singer in 'Musical Masterpieces' (archive footage)
- Eleanor Powell — Film Character (archive footage)
- Virginia O'Brien — Film Character (archive footage)
- Jacqueline White — Mother in 'Our Old Car' (archive footage)
- Ben Blue — Bellamy B. Birdbrain in Badminton (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Rand Brooks — Film Character (uncredited)
- George Chandler — Roger the Valet (uncredited)
- Inez Cooper — Film Character (uncredited)
- Ken Davidson — Actor in Badminton (archive footage) (uncredited)
Interesting facts
The Great Morgan is a 1945 American musical-comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is considered one of the more unusual in the MGM canon in that it is a compilation film built around a slight plot line, with a running time of less than 60 minutes.
Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.
Recommended
- Love Happy 1949 · ★ 5.8
- The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie 1979 · ★ 7.4
- Footlight Parade 1933 · ★ 6.8
- The Three Stooges 2012 · ★ 5.8
- Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa 2013 · ★ 6.2
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Three More 2024 · ★ 7.4
- A Very Jonas Christmas Movie 2025 · ★ 6.2
- 29th Street 1991 · ★ 6.9
- Die Hart 2023 · ★ 5.9
- Buck Privates 1941 · ★ 6.8
- Taking Care of Business 1990 · ★ 6.3
- Sneakerella 2022 · ★ 5.9