The Great Profile

The Great Profile

82 mins | Comedy | Aug. 30, 1940

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.

The Great Profile

82 mins | Comedy | Aug. 30, 1940

The Great Profile
An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title The Great Profile
Directors Walter Lang
Writers Hilary Lynn, Milton Sperling

Cast

John Barrymore

as Evans Garrick

Mary Beth Hughes

as Sylvia Manners

Gregory Ratoff

as Boris Mefoofsky

John Payne

as Richard Lansing

Anne Baxter

as Mary Maxwell

Lionel Atwill

as Dr. Bruce

Edward Brophy

as Sylvester

Willie Fung

as Confucius

Joan Valerie

as Understudy

Charles Lane

as Director

Dorothy Dearing

as Debutante

Marc Lawrence

as Tony

Hal K. Dawson

as Ticket Seller

William Pawley

as Electrician

Eddie Dunn

as Furniture Man

James Flavin

as Detective

Paul Brochard

as Acrobat

Ralph Brooks

as Audience Extra

Robert Conway

as Assistant Treasurer

Sidney De Gray

as Critic

John Dilson

as Doctor Perkins

George Dobbs

as Reporter

John Elliott

as Pop - Stage Doorman

John Hiestand

as Announcer (voice)

Arthur Stuart Hull

as Audience Extra / Herman

Bert Moorhouse

as Audience Extra

William Newell

as Reporter

The Pina Troupe

as Acrobats

Russell Saunders

as Member of Acrobatic Troupe

Robert Shaw

as Reporter

Brick Sullivan

as Repo Man

Stanley Taylor

as Reporter

Billy Wayne

as Reporter

Larry Wheat

as Audience Extra