Mary Jane's Pa

They Set a New High in Howls!

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.

Comedy Romance

Aline MacMahon

(Ellen Preston)

Guy Kibbee

(Sam Preston)

Tom Brown

(King Wagner)

Robert McWade

(John Wagner)

Minor Watson

(Kenneth Marvin)

Nan Grey

(Lucille Preston)

John Arledge

(Linc Overman)

Robert Light

(Fred)

Betty Jean Hainey

(Mary Jane Preston)

Oscar Apfel

(Chief Bailey)

DeWitt Jennings

(Sheriff)

Carl Stockdale

(Gene)

Louis Mason

(Jones)

Jack Kennedy

(Watchman)

Margaret Armstrong

(Third Gossip)

Irving Bacon

(Clerk Getting Tied Up)

Joseph E. Bernard

(Plainclothesman with Sheriff)

Ward Bond

(Roughneck Leader)

Bonita

(First Gossip)

James P. Burtis

(Motor Cop)

Eddy Chandler

(Watkins - Turnkey)

Georgie Cooper

(Mrs. Bailey)

Nick Copeland

(Nick - Marvin's Campaign Worker)

Don Downen

(Youth)

Frank Fanning

(Plainclothesman with Sheriff)

Roger Gray

(Bartender)

Lew Harvey

(Roughneck)

Ben Hendricks Jr.

(Roughneck)

John Hyams

(Man at Carnival with Big Hat)

Milton Kibbee

(Bill - Printing Press Mechanic)

Eddie Lee

(Chinese Man)

Robert McKenzie

(Waiter)

Edward McWade

(Chuck - the Old Timer)

Frank Meredith

(Motor Cop)

Sam Rice

(Marvin's Campaign Worker)

George Riley

(Magician at Carnival)

Rosalie Roy

(Secretary)

Kathryn Sheldon

(Second Gossip)

Harry Wilson

(Roughneck)

Tom Wilson

(Tom - Marvin's Campaign Worker)

Helen Wood

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