The Great Morgan

57m

Comedy

5.5

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)

Cast

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)

Tommy Dorsey

Tommy Dorsey (archive footage) (uncredited)

Cedric Gibbons

Cedric Gibbons (uncredited)

Dell Henderson

Film Character (uncredited)

Irene

Irene (uncredited)

Bert Moorhouse

Studio Executive (uncredited)

John Nesbitt

Narrator in 'Our Old Car' (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

William Newell

Film Character (uncredited)

William Powell

William Powell (voice) (uncredited)

Buddy Rich

Buddy Rich - Drums (archive footage) (uncredited)

Douglas Shearer

Douglas Shearer (uncredited)

Pete Smith

Narrator in 'Badminton' (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)

Arthur Space

Father in Passing Parade (archive footage) (uncredited)

William Tannen

Officer Donohue (archive footage) (uncredited)

Billy Wayne

Vince, Film Cutter (uncredited)

Joe Watters

Actor in Badminton (archive footage) (uncredited)

Crew

Nat Perrin

Director, Screenplay

Jule Styne

Songs

Herb Magidson

Lyricist