The Ghost Comes Home (1940)
1h 19m
Running Time
March 8, 1940Release Date
The Ghost Comes Home (1940)
1h 19m
Running Time
March 8, 1940Release Date
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Plot.
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Frank Morgan
Vern Adams
Billie Burke
Cora Adams
Ann Rutherford
Billie Adams
Reginald Owen
Hemingway
John Shelton
Lanny Shea
Donald Meek
Mortimer Hopkins, Sr.
Wilhelm Thiele
Director
Richard Maibaum
Writer
Don Castle
Spigley 'Spig', a Band Member
Harry Ruskin
Writer
Nat Pendleton
Roscoe
Frank Albertson
Ernest
Georg Kaiser
Writer
Harold Huber
Tony
Leonard Lee
Writer
Hobart Cavanaugh
Ambrose Bundy
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Writer
Ann Morriss
Myra
Tom Rutherford
Mortimer Hopkins, Jr.
Renie Riano
Sarah Osborn
Richard Carle
John Reed Thomas
King Baggot
Townsman at Banquet (uncredited)
William A. Boardway
Townsman at Banquet (uncredited)
Buck
Dog in Pet Shop (uncredited)
Maurice Costello
Townsman at Banquet (uncredited)
Jules Cowles
Townsman on Street (uncredited)
Joe Gilbert
Club Patron (uncredited)
George Golden
Club Patron (uncredited)
Robert Haines
Club Patron (uncredited)
Eddie Hall
Pipe-Smoking Pedestrian (uncredited)
Charles Halton
Mr. Stark - Steamship Official (uncredited)
Mahlon Hamilton
Townsman at Banquet (uncredited)
Edward Hearn
Townsman at Banquet (uncredited)
Frank Jaquet
The Mayor (uncredited)
Suzanne Kaaren
Nightclub Flower Girl (uncredited)
Edward Kilroy
Clerk (uncredited)
Claude King
Chester B. Morlick - Thomas' Lawyer (uncredited)
Horace McMahon
Dave - the Nightclub Manager (uncredited)
Hans Moebus
Club Patron (uncredited)
Louis Natheaux
Myra's Gangster Friend at Bar (uncredited)
Richard Neill
Townsman at Banquet (uncredited)
William Newell
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Wedgwood Nowell
Passerby Pointing Out Steamship Line (uncredited)
Thomas Pogue
Man at Banquet (uncredited)
Loretta Russell
Club Patron (uncredited)
J. Lewis Smith
Lefty (uncredited)
Ben Taggart
Tim Leary (uncredited)
Terry
Dog in Pet Shop (uncredited)
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The Ghost Comes Home is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele and written by Richard Maibaum and Harry Ruskin. The film stars Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Ann Rutherford, John Shelton, Reginald Owen and Donald Meek. The film was released on March 8, 1940, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.It was based on a play by Georg Kaiser which had previously been made into the 1935 German film The Valiant Navigator by Hans Deppe.