Cain and Mabel is a 1936 romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily"...

 designed as a vehicle for Marion Davies in which she co-stars with Clark Gable and Robert Paige

Robert Paige

Robert Paige was a TV star and Universal Pictures leading man who made 65 films in his lifetime and was the only actor ever allowed to sing on film with Deanna Durbin...

 (credited under his original name, David Carlyle).

The story had been filmed before by William Randolph Hearst's production company, Cosmopolitan, back in 1924 as a silent called The Great White Way

The Great White Way (1924 film)

The Great White Way is a 1924 silent film comedy centered around the sport of boxing and directed by E. Mason Hopper. It was produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures, just prior to the purchase of Goldwyn by Marcus Loew to become MGM. It was made with the...

. That film starred Anita Stewart

Anita Stewart

Anita Stewart was an American actress and film producer of the early silent film era.-Early life and career:...

 and Oscar Shaw

Oscar Shaw

Oscar Shaw , was a stage and screen actor and singer...

 and was distributed by Goldwyn Pictures

Goldwyn Pictures

Goldwyn Pictures Corporation was an American motion picture production company founded in 1916 by Samuel Goldfish in partnership with Broadway producers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn using an amalgamation of both last names to create the name...

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Background

Paige introduced the song "I'll Sing You a Thousand Love Songs" with words by Al Dubin

Al Dubin

Alexander "Al" Dubin was an American lyricist. He became known through his collaborations with the composer Harry Warren.-Life and works:...

 and music by Harry Warren

Harry Warren

Harry Warren was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison,...

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Cast

Marion Davies

Marion Davies

Marion Davies was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, as her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career....

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Mabel O'Dare

Clark Gable

Clark Gable

William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...

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Larry Cain

Allen Jenkins

Allen Jenkins

Allen Jenkins was an American character actor of stage, screen and television.-Early life:He was born David Allen Curtis Jenkins in Staten Island, New York on April 9, 1900.-Career:...

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Dodo

Roscoe Karns

Roscoe Karns

Roscoe Karns was an American actor. He appeared in nearly 150 films between 1915 and 1964.He played the title role in the popular DuMont Television Network series Rocky King, Inside Detective from 1950 to 1954...

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Aloysius K. Reilly

Walter Catlett

Walter Catlett

Walter Catlett was an American actor. As a San Francisco citizen, he started out in vaudeville with a detour for a while in opera before breaking into films.-Early career:...

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Jake Sherman

Robert Paige

Robert Paige

Robert Paige was a TV star and Universal Pictures leading man who made 65 films in his lifetime and was the only actor ever allowed to sing on film with Deanna Durbin...

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Ronny Cauldwell (billed as David Carlyle)

Hobart Cavanaugh

Hobart Cavanaugh

Hobart Cavanaugh was an American character actor in films and on stage.Born in Virginia City, Nevada, Cavanaugh made his film debut in San Francisco Nights...

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Milo, the Stage Manager

Ruth Donnelly

Ruth Donnelly

Ruth Donnelly was an American stage and film actress. Her father was the mayor of Trenton, New Jersey....

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Aunt Mimi

Pert Kelton

Pert Kelton

Pert Kelton was an American vaudeville, movie, radio and television actress. She was the first actress who played Alice Kramden in The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason and was a prominent comedic supporting film actress in the 1930s...

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Toddy Williams

William Collier, Sr. ...
Pat 'Pop' Walters

Sammy White ...
Specialty (Coney Island Number)

E.E. Clive ...
Charles 'Chuck' Fendwick

Allen Pomeroy ...
Fighter Tom Reed

Robert Middlemass ...
Mr. George, Cafe Proprietor

Joseph Crehan ...
Reed's Manager