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Damon Runyan's Gay American Story!
Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
Ann Sothern William Gargan Lewis Stone Walter Brennan Marsha Hunt Tom Neal James Bush Don Costello Muriel Hutchison Jack Norton Aldrich Bowker Frederick Burton Al Shean E. Alyn Warren Robert Emmett O'Connor Russell Hicks Cliff Clark Paul Everton Charles Trowbridge Edward LeSaint Walter Kohner Patsy Allen Tommy Baker Tommy Bupp Stanley Andrews James Flavin Lee Phelps Jack Mulhall Hal K. Dawson Betty Farrington Frank O'Connor Mary Gordon Larry Harris Louis Jean Heydt Ann Teeman Forbes Murray George Rosener David Holt Lon McCallister Barbara Bedford Verna Felton Dixie Dean Edward McWade Harry Semels Claire McDowell Jessie Arnold Margaret Bert Bess Flowers Frank McLure Larry Steers Bert Moorhouse Roger McGee Johnny Walsh Abner Biberman Ben Taggart Lee Prather Boyd Gilbert
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