Big City

Mar 25, 1948

1h 43m

★ 7.2

Excitement from Dusk to Dawn!

Overview

A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.

Genres

Drama

Music

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Big City Trailers

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Cast

Midge

Margaret O'Brien

Rev. Philip Y. Andrews

Robert Preston

Cantor David Irwin Feldman

Danny Thomas

Patrick O'Donnell

George Murphy

Florence Bartlett

Karin Booth

Judge Martin O. Abercrombie

Edward Arnold

Louis Keller

Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins

Shoo Shoo Grady

Betty Garrett

Mama Feldman

Lotte Lehmann

Martha

Connie Gilchrist

Trio Leader (as Page Cavanaugh Trio)

Page Cavanaugh

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6.2

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