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The Great Morgan is a american film of genre Comedy released in USA on 1 january 1945 with Frank Morgan

The Great Morgan (1945)

The Great Morgan
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Released in USA 1 january 1945
Length 57minutes
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Musical
Rating51% 2.577192.577192.577192.577192.57719

The Great Morgan (1945) is an American musical-comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is considered one of the more unusual in the MGM canon in that it is a compilation film built around a slight plot line, with a running time of less than 60 minutes.

The film was produced for overseas (i.e. non-United States) markets and features Frank Morgan (best remembered today as the Wizard in MGM's The Wizard of Oz) appearing as himself. The premise of the film is that Morgan is given a chance to put together his own movie, and he does so by combining several unrelated comedic and musical short subjects with his own short film.

Segments include a musical number featuring dancer Eleanor Powell cut from one of her early 1940s musicals (some sources erroneously state the scene comes from Broadway Melody of 1936, but in fact it was a scene cut from her 1939 film Honolulu), several songs by Carlos Ramirez, and a musical number by Virginia O'Brien backed by Tommy Dorsey and orchestra. Among the non-musical segments of the film is a look at the history of the automobile in suburban America and a profile of a champion badminton player. There are also cameos by art director Cedric Gibbons, supervisor of sound Douglas Shearer and costume designer Irene.

The film was believed to be a lost film for many years. In 1980, a print was found, and the film was subsequently released to the American home video market.

Actors

Frank Morgan

(Himself)Leon Ames

(K. F.)William Powell

(William Powell (voice) (uncredited))Lucille Norman

(Singer in 'Musical Masterpieces' (archive footage))Eleanor Powell

(Film Character (archive footage))
And :
Virginia O'Brien
Jacqueline White
Ben Blue
Rand Brooks
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