Follow the Leader
Cast & Crew
Norman Taurog
Ed Wynn
Ginger Rogers
Stanley Smith
Lou Holtz
Lida Kane
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Crickets, a timorous former acrobat and comedian, works as waiter in Ma Brennan's restaurant, where Mary, the owner's stage-struck daughter, is in love with Jimmy Moore, a saxophonist. Sam Platz, a theatrical press agent, recognizes Crickets as an old acquaintance and promises to promote Mary's career. At the same time, Two-Gun Terry, a neighborhood gangster, kills the leader of the Hudson Dusters, a rival gang, and the leaderless gang takes refuge in the restaurant, followed by Terry; terrified, Crickets tries to serve him and accidentally knocks him unconscious; hailed as a hero, he is elected to head the Dusters and is assigned to force a manager to give Mary a chance on the stage. He succeeds in getting her the job of understudy in George White's Scandals by locking the star in her apartment. Mary sings the role and is hailed by the critics though rebuffed by Jimmy; but Crickets effects their reconciliation after she has risen to stardom, giving them his patented mosquito exterminator for a wedding present.
Director
Norman Taurog
Cast
Ed Wynn
Ginger Rogers
Stanley Smith
Lou Holtz
Lida Kane
Ethel Merman
Bobby Watson
Donald Kirke
William Halligan
Holly Hall
Preston Foster
James C. Morton
Crew
Lew Brown
B. G. Desylva
Sammy Fain
E. Y. Harburg
Ray Henderson
Irving Kahal
Pierre Norman
Albert Parker
Gertrude Purcell
Barney Rogan
Arthur Schwartz
Al Segal
Sid Silvers
Larry Williams
Ernest F. Zatorsky
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Only one song, "Satan's Holiday," sung by Ethel Merman, was retained from the musical comedy source.
