Molly and Me is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Lewis Seiler

Lewis Seiler

Lewis Seiler was an American film director. He directed 88 films between 1923 and 1958.He was born in New York, New York, and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:* A Bankrupt Honeymoon...

 and released by 20th Century Fox. The screenplay was based on the novel written by Frances Marion

Frances Marion

Frances Marion was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the twentieth century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos.-Career:...

 and adapted by Roger Burford. It starred Monty Woolley

Monty Woolley

Monty Woolley was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor. At the age of 50, he achieved a measure of stardom for his best-known role in the stage play and 1942 film The Man Who Came to Dinner...

, Gracie Fields

Gracie Fields

Dame Gracie Fields, DBE , was an English-born, later Italian-based actress, singer and comedienne and star of both cinema and music hall.-Early life:...

, Reginald Gardiner

Reginald Gardiner

Reginald Gardiner was an English-born actor in film and television and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in Britain. His parents wanted him to be an architect and he studied at it but he wanted to be an actor and eventually got his way.He started as a super on stage and eventually...

 and Roddy McDowall

Roddy McDowall

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall was an English actor and photographer. His film roles included Cornelius and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes film series...

.

Plot

An out of work actress (Gracie Fields) decides to act as an experienced housekeeper in order to get a job, only to discover that the butler (Reginald Gardiner) is doing exactly the same thing.

Their employer Mr Graham (Monty Woolley), a divorced and retired politician who's estranged from his son (Roddy McDowall) needs his life shaken up, something that Molly is more than capable of doing for him.

Cast

• Monty Woolley
  Monty Woolley
  Monty Woolley was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor. At the age of 50, he achieved a measure of stardom for his best-known role in the stage play and 1942 film The Man Who Came to Dinner...
  
   as John Graham
• Gracie Fields
  Gracie Fields
  Dame Gracie Fields, DBE , was an English-born, later Italian-based actress, singer and comedienne and star of both cinema and music hall.-Early life:...
  
   as Molly Barry
• Reginald Gardiner
  Reginald Gardiner
  Reginald Gardiner was an English-born actor in film and television and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in Britain. His parents wanted him to be an architect and he studied at it but he wanted to be an actor and eventually got his way.He started as a super on stage and eventually...
  
   as Harry Phillips/Peabody, The Butler
• Roddy McDowall
  Roddy McDowall
  Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall was an English actor and photographer. His film roles included Cornelius and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes film series...
  
   as Jimmy Graham
• Natalie Schafer
  Natalie Schafer
  Natalie Schafer was an American actress, best known as Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell on CBS's sitcom Gilligan's Island .-Early life and career:...
  
   as Kitty Goode-Burrows
• Edith Barrett
  Edith Barrett
  Edith Barrett was an American film actress.-Biography:Edith Barrett was a granddaughter of 19th-century American actor Lawrence Barrett. She entered the entertainment industry at age 16 in a staging of Walter Hampden's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. At 19 in 1926 she appeared with Hampden in...
  
   as Julia
• Clifford Brooke as Pops
• Aminta Dyne as Musette
• Queenie Leonard
  Queenie Leonard
  Queenie Leonard was a British character actress and singer.-Early life and career:She was born as Pearl Walker in London in 1905 and began her career on stage in 1921, and debuted on film in 1931. She had already amassed 20 years of stage and screen experience when, in 1941, she made the first of...
  
   as Lily
• Doris Lloyd
  Doris Lloyd
  Hessy Doris Lloyd was an English actress.She appeared in over 150 films between 1920 and 1967, including the 1933 low-budget Monogram Pictures version of Oliver Twist, in which she played Nancy...
  
   as Mrs Graham
• Patrick O'Moore as Ronnie
• Lewis L. Russell as Sir Arthur Burroughs