A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. Read More »
Tag Archives: Lucille Ball
The Big Street (1942) Irving Reis, Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton MacLane
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. Read More »
Critic’s Choice (1963) Don Weis, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Maxwell
Parker Ballantine is the most respected and forthright of the New York theater critics. Read More »
Mame (1974) Gene Saks, Lucille Ball, Robert Preston, Bea Arthur
It’s the late 1920s. Upon the death of wealthy Chicagoan Edward Dennis, his nine-year old son Patrick Dennis Read More »
Easy to Wed (1946) Edward Buzzell, Buster Keaton, Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball
The “Morning Star” is in trouble: J.B. Allenbury, rich and mighty, will sue them for 2 million dollars Read More »
Easy Living (1949) Jacques Tourneur, Victor Mature, Lizabeth Scott, Lucille Ball
Pete Wilson is on top. He is the highest paid professional football player in the league. Read More »
Forever, Darling (1956) Alexander Hall, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, James Mason
Susan and Lorenzo have been married for over five years and they are starting to drift apart. Read More »
Twelve Crowded Hours (1939) Lew Landers, Richard Dix, Lucille Ball, Allan Lane
One night of twelve crowded hours in the life of a newspaper investigative reporter out to get the goods on the master-minds who operate the profitable Numbers Racket in a big city. Read More »
Ziegfeld Follies (1945) Lemuel Ayers, Roy Del Ruth, William Powell, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball
In heaven, showman Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. fondly recalls his first Broadway revue, the Ziegfeld Follies of 1907. Read More »
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941) Richard Wallace, George Murphy, Lucille Ball, Edmond O’Brien
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Read More »
Beauty for the Asking (1939) Glenn Tryon, Lucille Ball, Patric Knowles, Donald Woods, Drama, Romance
Denny drops fiancée Jean and marries Flora who is worth ten million dollars. When Jean is fired from her job she decides to market the face cream she invented. Read More »
The Long, Long Trailer (1953) Vincente Minnelli, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main, Comedy, Romance
Nicky and Tacy are going to be married. Nicky wants to save up money for a house, but Tacy dreams of starting off with their own home on wheels–a trailer. Read More »
The Fuller Brush Girl (1950) Lloyd Bacon, Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, Carl Benton Reid, Comedy
Scatterbrained Sally Elliott tries to get a job as a Fuller brush girl and desperate for money she borrows her friend’s kit without permission Read More »
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) Dorothy Arzner, Roy Del Ruth, Maureen O’Hara, Louis Hayward, Lucille Ball, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Judy O’Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. Read More »
Without Love (1945) Harold S. Bucquet, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Comedy, Romance
In WWII Pat Jamieson is a scientist working, with Government support, on a high-altitude oxygen mask for fighter pilots. Read More »