--- title: 'Cairo (1942)' type: 'film' director: 'W. S. Van Dyke' released: '1942-01-01' runtime_minutes: 100 genres: - 'Music' - 'Romance' - 'Thriller' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/cairo-1942' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034565/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Cairo (1942) 1942 · 100 min · Music, Romance, Thriller · United States ## Synopsis Cairo is a 1942 musical comedy film made by MGM and Loew's, and directed by W. S. Van Dyke. The screenplay was written by John McClain, based on an idea by Ladislas Fodor about a news reporter shipwrecked in a torpedo attack, who teams up with a Hollywood singer and her maid to foil Nazi spies. The music score is by Herbert Stothart. This film was Jeanette MacDonald's last film on her MGM contract. ## Credits - **Director:** [W. S. Van Dyke](https://cinepixo.com/people/w-s-van-dyke) - **Original Music Composer:** [Herbert Stothart](https://cinepixo.com/people/herbert-stothart) - **Producer:** [Joseph L. Mankiewicz](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-l-mankiewicz) - **Director of Photography:** [Ray June](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-june) - **Editor:** [James E. Newcom](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-e-newcom) ## Cast - [Eduardo Ciannelli](https://cinepixo.com/people/eduardo-ciannelli) - [Ethel Waters](https://cinepixo.com/people/ethel-waters) - [Dooley Wilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/dooley-wilson) - [William Tannen](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-tannen) - [Lionel Atwill](https://cinepixo.com/people/lionel-atwill) - [Maurice Costello](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurice-costello) - [Grant Mitchell](https://cinepixo.com/people/grant-mitchell) - [Reginald Owen](https://cinepixo.com/people/reginald-owen) - [Jeanette MacDonald](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeanette-macdonald) - [Rhys Williams](https://cinepixo.com/people/rhys-williams) - [Robert Young](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-young-2) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/cairo-1942 Film facts: Wikidata (Q429098); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.