The Ghost Comes Home

Plot

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

  • Wilhelm Thiele

    Director

  • Georg Kaiser

    Theatre Play

  • Richard Maibaum

    Screenplay

  • Harry Ruskin

    Screenplay

  • Herman J. Mankiewicz

    Staff Writer

  • Leonard Smith

    Director of Photography

  • William H. Terhune

    Editor

  • 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)

  • Runtime

    79 minutes

    Released

    1940-03-08

    Languages

    English

    Countries

    United States of America

    Studios

    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

    Sound

  • David Snell

    Original Music Composer

  • Updated

    20 days ago

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