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Big City

Year:

1948

Duration:

103 min

Genres:

Drama

IMDB rate:

6.4

Director:

Norman Taurog

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1948-03-25

Filming Locations: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Bobby Barber

Margaret O'Brien

Midge

Robert Preston

Rev. Philip Y. Andrews

Danny Thomas

Cantor David Irwin Feldman

George Murphy

Patrick O'Donnell

Karin Booth

Florence Bartlett

Edward Arnold

Judge Martin O. Abercrombie

Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins

Louis Keller (as Butch Jenkins)

Betty Garrett

Shoo Shoo Grady

Lotte Lehmann

Mama Feldman

Connie Gilchrist

Martha, the Judge's Maid

Page Cavanaugh

Trio Leader (as Page Cavanaugh Trio)

David Bair

Boy (uncredited) (voice)

Stanley Blystone

Mike, the Bartender (uncredited)

George Calliga

Rabbi (uncredited)

Heinie Conklin

Drunk Barfly (uncredited)

George Davis

The Florist (uncredited)

Dolores Donlon

Bride (uncredited)

John George

Midget at Bar (uncredited)

Sherry Hall

Court Clerk (uncredited)

Dell Henderson

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Clarence Hennecke

Fighter (uncredited)

Maynard Holmes

Groom (uncredited)

Joy James

Boogie-Woogie Fan (uncredited)

Doris Kemper

Mrs. Krause (uncredited)

Colin Kenny

Lawyer (uncredited)

David Leonard

Rudy (uncredited)

Hank Mann

Drunk Barfly (uncredited)

Frank Mayo

Lawyer (uncredited)

Jerry Mickelsen

Boy (uncredited) (voice)

Ben Moselle

Fighter (uncredited)

Marles Noie

Little Girl (uncredited)

Skeets Noyes

Cleaning Man (uncredited)

Peter Roman

Stooge (uncredited)

Irene Seidner

Woman Guardian (uncredited)

Lotte Stein

Rudy's Wife (uncredited)

Brick Sullivan

Cop (uncredited)

Charles Sullivan

Brawler Outside Bar (uncredited)

Sailor Vincent

Fighter (uncredited)

Arthur Walsh

Boogie-Woogie Fan (uncredited)

Wilson Wood

Best Man (uncredited)

Jack Worth

Cop (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Betty Garrett's film debut.

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Although there was not a soundtrack album, MGM issued a 78-rpm boxed album featuring Betty Garrett (making her screen debut), along with recording artists Kate Smith (intoning her trademark "God Bless America," written by Irving Berlin), Art Lund and Hal McIntyre's Orchestra. From RCA Victor came two releases by cast members: a 78-rpm album by the illustrious soprano who had retired from the Metropolitan Opera, Lotte Lehmann (singing "God Bless America" in the movie and commercially for RCA Victor); and a single by The Page Cavanaugh Trio of "Ok'l Baby Dok'l" (music and lyrics by Inez James and Sidney Miller) - performed here without Betty Garrett, who shared the soundtrack version and then made her own studio cut with Hal Mooney and His Orchestra for MGM Records to include on its album and also issue as a single.