Elmer, the Great
movie
A pennant Winning Panic About Base ball and Blondes!
Released April 29, 1933
Genres:
Overview
Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
Cast
Joe E. Brown
as
Elmer Kane
Patricia Ellis
as
Nellie Poole
Frank McHugh
as
Healy High-Hips
Claire Dodd
as
Evelyn
Preston Foster
as
Walker
Russell Hopton
as
Whitey
Sterling Holloway
as
Nick Kane
Jane Wyman
as
Game spectator (uncredited)
Emma Dunn
as
Mrs. Kane
Charles C. Wilson
as
Mr. Wade (as Charles Wilson)
Charles Delaney
as
Johnny Abbott
Berton Churchill
as
Colonel Moffitt
Crew
Mervyn LeRoy
as
Director
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Thomas J. Geraghty
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Screenplay
Orry-Kelly
as
Costume Design
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Robert M. Haas
as
Art Direction
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Al Alleborn
as
Assistant Director
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Thomas Pratt
as
Editor
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Arthur L. Todd
as
Director of Photography
George M. Cohan
as
Writer
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Ring Lardner
as
Writer
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Maxwell Arnow
as
Casting Director
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William Forsyth
as
Casting Assistant