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The Great Mc Ginty

Screen Guild Theater · August 27, 1945 · 29 min · 4,506 words

The transcript of “The Great Mc Ginty”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast August 27, 1945. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Guild Theater plays Screen Guild Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players. The Lady Esther Screen Guild Play Tonight. The Great McGinty. The Starring Players. This is Ruth Hussey. It's Brian Danavy. And this is a Kim Timmyro. Tonight Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players in one of the most delightful screenplays of recent years.

The Paramount Picture. The Great McGinty. It stars Ruth Hussey as Catherine. Ryan Don Levy is McGinty and Akim Tamirov as the boss. The Lady Esther Scringild players in the Great McGinty. At piano, that's the thing that gets my goat.

I don't mind this banana country. I don't mind the heat. I don't mind the flies, but at crumbly piano. Keep saying I'm down. Keeps reminding me I used to be up. Yeah, I set up and I mean way up.

up. I used to be governor of a state. Sort of funny the way I got started in politics. It's an election night and I'm on the soup line. I don't have one thin dime to my name and this guy steps up and kind of whispers. Hey buddy, you want to make yourself two bucks?

What are you going to do as vote for mayor? How can I vote? I'm not even registered. Are you kidding? Come on. Two bucks a vote. That's easy though. But later, when I'm When I drop in at this address, he gives me sort of like a club it was and try to collect

what's coming to me. Thirty-seven times. You mean you voted thirty-seven times? That's right. Thirty-seven times. What's that? Who voted thirty-seven times? This lug right here, he claims we owe him sixty-four bucks. Seventy-four. Well, now look all I can say.

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