Elmer, the Great
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“A pennant Winning Panic About Base ball and Blondes!”
Baseball star Elmer Kane leaves the little town of Gentryville, Indiana, to join the Chicago Cubs, where his naivete and arrogance soon put his relationship and career into jeopardy.
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Cast
36 people
Joe E. Brown
Elmer Kane
Known for
Some Like It Hot
The Comedy of Terrors
Patricia Ellis
Nellie Poole
Known for
Block-Heads
Frank McHugh
Healy High-Hips
Known for
Going My Way
The Roaring Twenties
Claire Dodd
Evelyn
Known for
Footlight Parade
Preston Foster
Walker
Known for
The Time Travelers
I Shot Jesse James
Russell Hopton
Whitey
Known for
The Miracle Woman
'G' Men
Sterling Holloway
Nick Kane
Known for
The Aristocats
Alice in Wonderland
Jane Wyman
Game spectator (uncredited)
Known for
The Lost Weekend
Stage Fright
Emma Dunn
Mrs. Kane
Known for
The Great Dictator
Son of Frankenstein
Charles Cahill Wilson
Mr. Wade (as Charles Wilson)
Known for
It Happened One Night
This Gun for Hire
Charles Delaney
Johnny Abbott
Also in
Captured in Chinatown
The Branded Man
Berton Churchill
Colonel Moffitt
Known for
Stagecoach
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
Mervyn LeRoy Director · Thomas J. Geraghty Screenplay George M. Cohan Writer
Budget $200K · United States release April 29, 1933 · Produced in United States
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Budget
$200,000
Production
First National Pictures
Production
The Vitaphone Corporation
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Studio
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · April 29, 1933
Theatrical
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