Min and Bill

Nov 29, 1930

1h 6m

★ 6.3

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Overview

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Min Divot

Marie Dressler

Bill

Wallace Beery

Nancy Smith

Dorothy Jordan

Bella Pringle

Marjorie Rambeau

Dick Cameron

Don Dillaway

Groot

DeWitt Jennings

Alec

Russell Hopton

Mr. Southard

Frank McGlynn Sr.

Mrs. Southard

Gretta Gould

Sailor in Barbershop (uncredited)

Hank Bell

Merchant Seaman Checking in at Hotel (uncredited)

Jack Pennick

Bella's Lover Aboard Ship (uncredited)

Henry Roquemore

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