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Cairo is a american film of genre Drama directed by W. S. Van Dyke released in USA on 17 august 1942 with Jeanette MacDonald
Cairo (1942)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 17 august 1942
Length 1h41
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke
OriginUSA
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Rating60%
Cairo is a 1942 musical comedy film made by MGM and Loew's, and directed by W. S. Van Dyke. The screenplay was written by John McClain, based on an idea by Ladislas Fodor about a news reporter shipwrecked in a torpedo attack, who teams up with a Hollywood singer and her maid to foil Nazi spies. The music score is by Herbert Stothart. This film was Jeanette MacDonald's last film on her MGM contract.
The film was poorly received upon its initial release.
Synopsis
Marcia Warren (Jeanette MacDonald), while "between pictures" in London hires an American reporter, Homer Smith (Robert Young) as her butler. What Marcia doesn't know is that Smith is an American newspaperman, who strongly suspects that she is a Nazi spy (the real enemy agent is Mrs. Morrison (Mona Barrie).Actors
Jeanette MacDonald
(Marcia Warren)
Robert Young
(Homer Smith, aka Juniper Jones)
Reginald Owen
(Philo Cobson)
Ethel Waters
(Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid)
Lionel Atwill
(Teutonic Gentleman)
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