Barnacle Bill (1941)
MGM tried to recapture the magic of the Wallace Beery/Marie Dressler films of the 1930s with Barnacle Bill. Beery is teamed with Marjorie Main, a Dressler "type" who had a roughneck style all her own. In the film, grumbly old fisherman Beery spends most of his screen time avoiding Main, who intends to trap him into matrimony. The rest of the time, Beery must contend with a daughter he never knew he had and with landlubbers who want to rob him of his seagoing livelihood. Barnacle Bill was one of six MGM films costarring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main, an experience neither star enjoyed very much. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, (more)
- Director(s):
- Richard Thorpe
Synopsis of Barnacle Bill
MGM tried to recapture the magic of the Wallace Beery/Marie Dressler films of the 1930s with Barnacle Bill. Beery is teamed with Marjorie Main, a Dressler "type" who had a roughneck style all her own. In the film, grumbly old fisherman Beery spends most of his screen time avoiding Main, who intends to trap him into matrimony. The rest of the time, Beery must contend with a daughter he never knew he had and with landlubbers who want to rob him of his seagoing livelihood. Barnacle Bill was one of six MGM films costarring Wallace Beery and Marjorie Main, an experience neither star enjoyed very much. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Barnacle Bill
- Wallace Beery - Bill Johansen
- Leo Carrillo - Pico Rodriguez
- Donald Meek - Pop Cavendish
- Connie Gilchrist - Mamie
- William Edmunds - Joe Petillo
- Alec Craig - MacDonald
- Art Miles - Driver
- Frank Yaconelli - Fisherman
- Harry Fleischmann - Detective
- Harry Semels - Tony
- James Millican - Sailor
- Milt Kibbee - Fisher-man
- Marjorie Main - Marge Cavendish
- Virginia Weidler - Virginia Johansen
- Barton MacLane - John Kelly
- Sara Haden - Aunt Letty
- Don Terry - Dixon
- Irving Bacon - Deckhand
- Monte Montague - Dolan
- George Guhl - Harry
- Charles Lane - Auctioneer
- Francis Pierlot - Minister
- William Forrest - Naval Officer
- Director(s):
- Richard Thorpe
- Writer(s):
- Hugo Butler, Jack Jevne
- Producer(s):
- Milton H. Bren
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