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Follow the Leader (also released as Manhattan Mary) is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film co-directed by Norman Taurog and Albert Parker. It stars Ginger Rogers and Ed Wynn in his film debut. The screenplay by Gertrude Purcell and Sid Silvers is based on a play by William K. Wells, George White and Lew Brown, with songs by Buddy DeSylva and Ray Henderson. It was produced and distributed by Paramount Publix Corporation.[1][2]
Plot
Cast
- Ed Wynn - Crickets
- Ginger Rogers - Mary Brennan
- Stanley Smith - Jimmy Moore
- Lou Holtz - Sam Platz
- Lida Lane - Ma Brennan
- Ethel Merman - Helen King
- Bobby Watson - George White
- Donald Kirke - R. C. Black
- William Halligan - Bob Sterling
- Holly Hall - Fritzie Devere
- Preston Foster - Two-Gun Terry
- James C. Morton - Mickie
- Tammany Young - Bull
- Jack La Rue - Gangster
- William Gargan - Gangster
- Eddie Roberts - Gangster
- William Black
- Dick Scott
- Jules Epailly - Gaston Duval
- Charles Henderson
References
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:..Follow the Leader
- ^ Pictorial History of the Talkies by Daniel Blum c.1958 (reprint, revised 1970) p.25
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