This fact-based musical comedy stars Fred MacMurray as real-life tycoon Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, the eccentric patriarch of a family in 1916 Philadelphia, and features singer-dancer Tommy Steele as an off-the-boat Irishman who joins the house staff as a butler. Mrs. Cordelia Biddle: Greer Garson. Mrs. Duke: Geraldine Page. Cordy: Lesley Ann Warren. Angie: John Davidson. Mrs. Worth: Hermione Baddeley. Aunt Mary: Gladys Cooper. Tony: Paul Petersen. Rosemary: Joyce Bulifant.