Follow the Leader

Overview

A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her opportunity, as the understudy, to play the role and become a star herself.

Directed by Norman Taurog

Top cast

Ed Wynn

Cricket

Ginger Rogers

Mary Brennan

Stanley Smith

Jimmie Moore

Lou Holtz

Sam Platz

L

Lida Kane

Ma Brennan

Ethel Merman

Helen King

Bobby Watson

George White

Donald Kirke

R.C. Black

William Halligan

Bob Sterling

H

Holly Hall

Fritzie Devere

Preston Foster

Two-Gun Terry

James C. Morton

Mickie

Tammany Young

Bull (uncredited)

Jack La Rue

Gangster (uncredited)

William Gargan

Gangster (uncredited)

W

William Black

(uncredited)

D

Dick Scott

(uncredited)

Jules Epailly

Gaston Duval (uncredited)

C

Charles Henderson

(uncredited)

Details