"Funnier Than "The Paleface"!" 04 July 1949 Comedy 88 mins
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
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Bob Hope as Humphrey "Sorrowful" Jones
Lucille Ball as Gladys O'Neill
William Demarest as Regret
Bruce Cabot as Big Steve Holloway
Thomas Gomez as Reardon
Tom Pedi as Once Over Sam
Paul Lees as Orville Smith
Houseley Stevenson as Doc Chesley
Ben Welden as Big Steve's Bodyguard
Emmett Vogan as Psychiatrist
Mary Jane Saunders as Martha Jane Smith
Erville Alderson as Happy the Mortician (uncredited)
Ethel Bryant as Nurse (uncredited)
John Butler as Jack, Bettor on Green Demon (uncredited)
Claire Carleton as Agnes 'Happy Hips' Noonan (uncredited)
Douglas Carter as Horse Player (uncredited)
Sidney Lanfield Director
Edmund L. Hartmann Screenplay
Damon Runyon Story
Gordon Jennings Special Effects
Albert Nozaki Art Direction
Robert Emmett Dolan Original Music Composer
Mary Kay Dodson Costume Design
Jay Livingston Songs
Wally Westmore Makeup Supervisor
Jack Rose Screenplay
Hans Dreier Art Direction
Daniel L. Fapp Director of Photography
Oscar Rudolph Assistant Director
Sam Comer Set Decoration
Bertram C. Granger Set Decoration
Ray Evans Songs
United States 04 July 1949
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