The Good Old Soak (1937)
April 23, 1937Release Date
The Good Old Soak (1937)
April 23, 1937Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Wallace Beery
Clem Hawley
Una Merkel
Nellie
Eric Linden
Clemmie Hawley
Betty Furness
Lucy Hawley
Judith Barrett
Ina Heath
J. Walter Ruben
Director
Ted Healy
Al Simmons
Don Marquis
Writer
Janet Beecher
Matilda Hawley
A.E. Thomas
Writer
George Sidney
Kennedy
Robert McWade
Webster Parsons
Harry Rapf
Producer
James Bush
Tom Ogden
Edward Ward
Composer
Margaret Hamilton
Minnie
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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.