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Director:
Writers:
Damon Runyon (story)
Leonard Spigelgass (screenplay)
Release Date:
4 September 1942 (USA) more
Tagline:
Damon Runyon's thrill-packed story of Broadway . . . as only he could tell it ! more
Plot:
Little Pinks is in love with a nightclub singer named Gloria. But it is a unrequited love as she does not know that he exists... more | add synopsis
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Unselfish Love more (30 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Henry Fonda | ... | Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II |
 | Lucille Ball | ... | Gloria Lyons |
 | Barton MacLane | ... | Case Ables |
| Eugene Pallette | ... | Nicely Nicely Johnson |
 | Agnes Moorehead | ... | Violette Shumberg |
| Sam Levene | ... | Horsethief |
| Ray Collins | ... | Professor B |
| Marion Martin | ... | Mimi Venus |
 | William T. Orr | ... | Decatur Reed (as William Orr) |
| George Cleveland | ... | Colonel Samuel Venus |
| Vera Gordon | ... | Mrs. Lefkowitz |
| Ozzie Nelson | ... | Himself, Orchestra Leader (as Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra) |
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88 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #8385) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | Sweden:(Banned) (1943) | Australia:G
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Some cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. These were (with their character names): Elliott Sullivan (Tramp), Al Hill (Tramp) and Donald Kirke (Surgeon). more
Quotes:
Gloria Lyons: Love is something that gets you one room, two chins and 3 kids. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie (1993) (TV) more
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Who Knows? more
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The comments about the Fonda character having 'no reason' to take the abusive and selfishness of the Ball character makes me wonder if this person ever loved anyone unconditionally. There are many people in this world that take worse than the verbal abuse from the person they love and stay with them their whole lives.
The Ball character was very well done and I don't think I remember Ball being a character like that after this movie. I don't like Lucille Ball as a comedienne, its too bad that she wasn't able to continue as a dramatic actress she would have done well.
But the movie is all about love conquering the selfish...wish it was that way all the time.