Follow the Leader (1930)
1h 16m
Running Time
December 6, 1930Release Date
Follow the Leader (1930)
1h 16m
Running Time
December 6, 1930Release Date
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Plot.
A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her opportunity, as the understudy, to play the role and become a star herself.
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Cast & Crew.

Ed Wynn
Cricket

Ginger Rogers
Mary Brennan

Stanley Smith
Jimmie Moore

Lou Holtz
Sam Platz

Lida Kane
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

William K. Wells
Writer

Tammany Young
Bull

Jack La Rue
A Gangster

William Gargan
A Gangster

Jules Epailly
Gaston Duval

Norman Taurog
Director

William Saulter
Art Direction

Barney Rogan
Editor

Richard Blaydon
Assistant Director

Sid Silvers
Screenplay

Gertrude Purcell
Screenplay

Larry Williams
Director of Photography

Billy K. Wells
Theatre Play

George White
Theatre Play / Producer

Ray Henderson
Songs

Buddy G. DeSylva
Lyricist

Lew Brown
Lyricist

Fred Graf
Hairstylist

Caroline Putnam
Costumer

Adolph Deutsch
Music Director

Johnny Green
Music Arranger

Max H. Manne
Music Supervisor

Ernest Zatorsky
Sound Recordist

William Black

Charles Henderson

Dick Scott
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
restaurant
waiter
Wiki.
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.
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