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Follow the Leader

TODAY'S RADIO SENSATION in His FIRST All-Talking Feature!
1930 | 76m | English

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A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her opportunity, as the understudy, to play the role and become a star herself.
Release Date: Dec 06, 1930
Director: Norman Taurog
Writer: Gertrude Purcell, Sid Silvers
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Keywords restaurant, waiter
Production Companies Paramount Pictures
Box Office Revenue: $0
Budget: $0
Updates Updated: Jan 18, 2026
Entered: Apr 28, 2024
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Full Credits

Name Character
Ed Wynn Cricket
Ginger Rogers Mary Brennan
Stanley Smith Jimmie Moore
Lou Holtz Sam Platz
Lida Kane Ma Brennan
Ethel Merman Helen King
Bobby Watson George White
Donald Kirke R.C. Black
William Halligan Bob Sterling
Holly Hall Fritzie Devere
Preston Foster Two-Gun Terry
James C. Morton Mickie
Tammany Young Bull (uncredited)
Jack La Rue Gangster (uncredited)
William Gargan Gangster (uncredited)
William Black (uncredited)
Dick Scott (uncredited)
Jules Epailly Gaston Duval (uncredited)
Charles Henderson (uncredited)
Name Job
Larry Williams Director of Photography
Norman Taurog Director
Gertrude Purcell Screenplay
Sid Silvers Screenplay
Billy K. Wells Theatre Play
George White Theatre Play
Buddy G. DeSylva Theatre Play
Lew Brown Theatre Play
Ray Henderson Theatre Play
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