The Ghost Comes Home
1940 | 79m | English
Popularity: 4 (history)
| Director: | Wilhelm Thiele |
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| Writer: | Richard Maibaum, Harry Ruskin |
| Staring: |
| Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive. | |
| Release Date: | Mar 08, 1940 |
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| Director: | Wilhelm Thiele |
| Writer: | Richard Maibaum, Harry Ruskin |
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Keywords | fraud, inheritance |
| Production Companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 27, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Frank Morgan | Vernon 'Vern' Adams |
| Billie Burke | Cora Adams |
| Ann Rutherford | Billie Adams |
| John Shelton | Lanny Shea |
| Reginald Owen | Hemingway |
| Donald Meek | Mortimer Hopkins, Sr. |
| Don Castle | Spigley 'Spig', a Band Member |
| Nat Pendleton | Roscoe |
| Frank Albertson | Ernest |
| Harold Huber | Tony |
| Hobart Cavanaugh | Ambrose Bundy |
| Ann Morriss | Myra |
| Tom Rutherford | Mortimer Hopkins, Jr. |
| Renie Riano | Sarah Osborn |
| Richard Carle | John Reed Thomas |
| King Baggot | Townsman at Banquet (uncredited) |
| William A. Boardway | Townsman at Banquet (uncredited) |
| Buck | Dog in Pet Shop (uncredited) |
| Maurice Costello | Townsman at Banquet (uncredited) |
| Jules Cowles | Townsman on Street (uncredited) |
| Joe Gilbert | Club Patron (uncredited) |
| George Golden | Club Patron (uncredited) |
| Robert Haines | Club Patron (uncredited) |
| Eddie Hall | Pipe-Smoking Pedestrian (uncredited) |
| Charles Halton | Mr. Stark - Steamship Official (uncredited) |
| Mahlon Hamilton | Townsman at Banquet (uncredited) |
| Edward Hearn | Townsman at Banquet (uncredited) |
| Frank Jaquet | The Mayor (uncredited) |
| Suzanne Kaaren | Nightclub Flower Girl (uncredited) |
| Edward Kilroy | Clerk (uncredited) |
| Claude King | Chester B. Morlick - Thomas' Lawyer (uncredited) |
| Horace McMahon | Dave - the Nightclub Manager (uncredited) |
| Hans Moebus | Club Patron (uncredited) |
| Louis Natheaux | Myra's Gangster Friend at Bar (uncredited) |
| Richard Neill | Townsman at Banquet (uncredited) |
| William Newell | Nightclub Waiter (uncredited) |
| Wedgwood Nowell | Passerby Pointing Out Steamship Line (uncredited) |
| Thomas Pogue | Man at Banquet (uncredited) |
| Loretta Russell | Club Patron (uncredited) |
| J. Lewis Smith | Lefty (uncredited) |
| Ben Taggart | Tim Leary (uncredited) |
| Terry | Dog in Pet Shop (uncredited) |
| Bess Wade | Club Patron (uncredited) |
| Bobby Watson | Waldo (uncredited) |
| Max Linder | Club Patron (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Richard Maibaum | Screenplay |
| Harry Ruskin | Screenplay |
| David Snell | Original Music Composer |
| Cedric Gibbons | Art Direction |
| Edwin B. Willis | Set Decoration |
| Herman J. Mankiewicz | Staff Writer |
| Wilhelm Thiele | Director |
| Georg Kaiser | Theatre Play |
| Leonard Smith | Director of Photography |
| William H. Terhune | Editor |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Albert E. Levoy | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 1 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
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| 2024 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
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