The Great Profile

6.3
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 82 min
  • Premiere: 1940. August 30.

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.

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John Barrymore

Evans Garrick

Mary Beth Hughes

Sylvia Manners

Gregory Ratoff

Boris Mefoofsky

John Payne

Richard Lansing

Anne Baxter

Mary Maxwell

Lionel Atwill

Dr. Bruce

Edward Brophy

Sylvester

Willie Fung

Confucius

Joan Valerie

Understudy

Charles Lane

Director

Dorothy Dearing

Debutante

Hal K. Dawson

Ticket Seller

William Pawley

Electrician

Eddie Dunn

Furniture Man

James Flavin

Detective

Ralph Brooks

Audience Extra

Robert Conway

Assistant Treasurer

John Dilson

Doctor Perkins

George Dobbs

Reporter

John Elliott

Pop - Stage Doorman

John Hiestand

Announcer (voice)

Arthur Stuart Hull

Audience Extra

Bert Moorhouse

Audience Extra

William Newell

Reporter

Russell Saunders

Member of Acrobatic Troupe

Robert Shaw

Reporter

Brick Sullivan

Repo Man

Stanley Taylor

Reporter

Billy Wayne

Reporter

Larry Wheat

Audience Extra

Art

Richard Day

Art Direction

Joseph C. Wright

Art Direction

Thomas Little

Set Decoration

Camera

Ernest Palmer

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Travis Banton

Costume Design

Directing

Walter Lang

Director

Editing

Production

Writing

Milton Sperling

Screenplay

Hilary Lynn

Screenplay