The Good Old Soak (1937)
April 23, 1937Release Date
The Good Old Soak (1937)
April 23, 1937Release Date

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Cast & Crew.

Wallace Beery
Clem Hawley

Una Merkel
Nellie

Eric Linden
Clemmie Hawley

Judith Barrett
Ina Heath

Betty Furness
Lucy Hawley

Ted Healy
Al Simmons

Janet Beecher
Matilda Hawley

George Sidney
Kennedy

Robert McWade
Webster Parsons

James Bush
Tom Ogden

Margaret Hamilton
Minnie

Granville Bates
Sam

Donald Briggs
Fred

Heinie Conklin
Bit Role

Frank Darien
Jasper

Almeda Fowler
Clemmie's Secretary
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The Good Old Soak is a 1937 American drama film starring Wallace Beery and directed by J. Walter Ruben from a screenplay by A. E. Thomas based upon the 1922 stage play of the same name by Don Marquis. The picture's supporting cast features Una Merkel, Eric Linden, Betty Furness, and Ted Healy.
Screenwriter Thomas was disturbed that MGM changed the title from the original "The Old Soak," to the "Good Old Soak." MGM did that because it felt Wallace Beery's fans considered the word "good" synonymous with Beery. Rollin Kirby, a distinguished political cartoonist on the New York World newspaper, and good friend of Don Marquis, got a laugh from Marquis when he suggested how appropriate it was that a man named Beery would portray the Old Soak himself.
The story was previously made as a silent film by Universal in 1926 called The Old Soak starring Jean Hersholt.