"The life and loves of the woman whose beauty had the world and its famous men at her feet!" 24 May 1940 Drama, Music 127 mins
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
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Alice Faye as Lillian Russell
Don Ameche as Edward Solomon
Henry Fonda as Alexander Moore
Edward Arnold as Diamond Jim Brady
Warren William as Jesse Lewisohn
Leo Carrillo as Tony Pastor
Helen Westley as Grandma Leonard
Nigel Bruce as William Gilbert
Lynn Bari as Edna McCauley
Claud Allister as Arthur Sullivan
Una O'Connor as Marie
William B. Davidson as President Cleveland
Dorothy Peterson as Cynthia Leonard
Ernest Truex as Charles K. Leonard
Joe Weber as Himself
Lew Fields as Himself
Irving Cummings Director
William Anthony McGuire Screenplay
Darryl F. Zanuck Producer
Gene Markey Associate Producer
Leon Shamroy Director of Photography
Walter Thompson Editor
Richard Day Art Direction
Joseph C. Wright Art Direction
Thomas Little Set Decoration
Travis Banton Costume Design
United States 24 May 1940
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