The Amazing Mr. Williams
A BOMBARDMENT OF LAUGHS!
1939 | 85m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Alexander Hall |
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| Writer: | Richard Maibaum, Sy Bartlett, Dwight Taylor |
| Staring: |
| Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar. Who will win, Maxine's curves or the glorious fight against crime? | |
| Release Date: | Nov 22, 1939 |
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| Director: | Alexander Hall |
| Writer: | Richard Maibaum, Sy Bartlett, Dwight Taylor |
| Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Mystery |
| Keywords | detective, duty, murder, based on play or musical, fiancé fiancée relationship |
| Production Companies | Columbia Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Melvyn Douglas | Kenny Williams |
| Joan Blondell | Maxine Carroll |
| Clarence Kolb | Captain McGovern |
| Ruth Donnelly | Effie Perkins |
| Edward Brophy | Buck Moseby |
| Donald MacBride | Lieutenant Bixler |
| Don Beddoe | Detective Deever |
| Jonathan Hale | Mayor |
| John Wray | Stanley |
| Jane Barnes | Wedding Guest (uncredited) |
| Julie Bishop | Face of 7th Victim in Newspaper Photo (uncredited) |
| Lela Bliss | Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited) |
| Maurice Cass | Little Man (uncredited) |
| Jimmy Conlin | Master of Ceremonies (uncredited) |
| Dick Curtis | Joe (uncredited) |
| Eddie Dunn | Race Track Spectator (uncredited) |
| Maude Eburne | Landlady (uncredited) |
| Sarah Edwards | Citizens Committee Woman (uncredited) |
| Dick Elliott | Druggist (uncredited) |
| Lorna Gray | Nurse (uncredited) |
| Richard Lane | Reagan (uncredited) |
| Robert Middlemass | Police Commissioner (uncredited) |
| Walter Miller | Browning (uncredited) |
| Sally Payne | Jean - Wedding Guest (uncredited) |
| Barbara Pepper | Muriel - Wedding Guest (uncredited) |
| Ralph Peters | Joe - Tobacco Store Proprietor (uncredited) |
| Virginia Sale | Miss Mason - Schoolteacher (uncredited) |
| Walter Sande | Police Stenographer (uncredited) |
| Harry Semels | Race Track Spectator (uncredited) |
| Peggy Shannon | Kitty (uncredited) |
| Wyndham Standing | Elevator Passenger (uncredited) |
| Robert Sterling | Elevator Boy (uncredited) |
| Anthony Warde | Bouncer (uncredited) |
| E. Alyn Warren | Clerk (uncredited) |
| Dave Willock | Bellboy (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Alexander Hall | Director |
| Viola Lawrence | Editor |
| Morris Stoloff | Music Director |
| Richard Maibaum | Screenplay |
| Sy Bartlett | Story, Screenplay |
| Lionel Banks | Art Direction |
| John P. Livadary | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Seymour Friedman | Assistant Director |
| Robert Kalloch | Costume Designer |
| Dwight Taylor | Screenplay |
| Felix Mills | Original Music Composer |
| Arthur L. Todd | Director of Photography |
| George Cooper | Sound |
| Arthur S. Black Jr. | Assistant Director |
| Fay Babcock | Set Decoration |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Everett Riskin | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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