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Nightclub entertainer Sarah Ryan and songwriter Tommy Taylor move in to the boardinghouse run by their mothers Maggie and Norah. Tommy brings along Mr. Grasselli, a "nervous wreck" who keeps to himself.. Sarah recognizes him as the gangster Chips Maguire. He killed a cop with Tommy's gun, so Tommy must now protect him. Grasselli winds up turning the boarding house into a money-making nightclub. Written by
Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
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The girl who gave the world a new word now shows what it really means,
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Producer
Mark Hellinger's dislike for executive producer
Hal B. Wallis became even stronger after this film was released. Though the film was critically acclaimed and made money for Warners, print ads at the time mentioned Wallis as executive producer (though uncredited in the film),
Jack L. Warner in charge of production and
Lewis Seiler as director, but did not even mention Hellinger, who had received screen credit as producer. This was one of the contributing factors in Hellinger's shortly thereafter leaving Warners for 20th Century-Fox. (Source: "The Mark Hellinger Story" by
Jim Bishop, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1952)
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Quotes
Grasselli aka Chips Maguire:
[
to himself]
How I hate mudders! Silver threads among the...
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Soundtracks
"The Gaucho Serenade"
(1940) (uncredited)
Written by
James Cavanaugh,
John Redmond and
Nat Simon
Played on piano by
Jeffrey Lynn and sung by
Ann Sheridan at the home vaudeville show
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...and Ann Sheridan can be quite fetching as the "showgirl" with the heart of gold who refers to herself at one point as being "technically a good girl". Fun, cliche-ridden, but with a lot of good lines. And Bogart is hilarious as he dead-pans cheating the oldsters at cards! Also: Is this the film that introduced the song "Angel in Disguise"? I only knew the song as delivered by Bugs Bunny!