Diamond Jim
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Preston Sturges
A. Edward Sutherland
Casts & Crew
Edward Arnold
Jean Arthur
Binnie Barnes
Cesar Romero
Eric Blore
Hugh O'Connell
George Sidney
Robert McWade
Charles Sellon
Henry Kolker
William Demarest
Albert Conti
Armand Kaliz
Tully Marshall
Purnell Pratt
Helen Brown
Stanley Andrews
Sam Appel
William Arnold
Irving Bacon
Wade Boteler
Harry C. Bradley
Al Bridge
Ralph Brooks
Daisy Bufford
Orrin Burke
Bobby Burns
Jack Carlyle
Eddy Chandler
Alex Chivra
Russ Clark
Mabel Colcord
Eddie Collins
Gino Corrado
Dan Crimmins
Edwards Davis
Jean De Briac
Germaine De Neel
George DeNormand
Kay Deslys
Jimmie Dundee
George Ernest
Jim Farley
Patricia Farley
Sam Flint
Eddie Foster
Clarence Geldart
Dorothy Granger
Frank Hagney
Charles Hammer
Otis Harlan
Sam Hayes
Edward Hearn
Dell Henderson
Al Hill
Bill Hoolahahn
Arthur Housman
Bill Howard
Arthur Stuart Hull
Mitchell Ingraham
Billy Jones
Darby Jones
Jane Keckley
Lew Kelly
Fred Kelsey
Emmett King
John Larkin
Jean Laverty
Edward LeSaint
Ralph Lewis
George MacQuarrie
Murdock MacQuarrie
Eily Malyon
Charles McAvoy
Billy McClain
Francis McDonald
J.P. McGowan
Malcolm McGregor
Matt McHugh
Robert McKenzie
Greta Meyer
Arthur Millett
John Miltern
Charles R. Moore
Edwin Mordant
Jack Mower
Harold Nelson
Wilfrid North
William H. O'Brien
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Henry Otho
Bob Perry
Bernice Pilot
George Reed
Cyril Ring
Julian Rivero
Marshall Ruth
Gay Seabrook
C. Montague Shaw
C.L. Sherwood
Herbert Skinner
John St. Clair
Libby Taylor
William H. Tooker
Richard Tucker
Maidel Turner
Malcolm Waite
Mary Wallace
William Welsh
Larry Wheat
Huey White
Lloyd Whitlock
David Worth
William Worthington
Baby Wyman
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