Tag: Little Miss Marker

• SORROWFUL JONES

  JULY 4, 1949 Sorrowful Jones is a remake of the 1934 Shirley Temple film, Little Miss Marker. In the film, a young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones (Bob Hope) as a marker for a bet. When her father does not return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with…

  Michael T. Mooney

  July 4, 2020

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  1949, Annette Warren, Bob Hope, Bruce Cabot, Damon Runyon, Hollywood, Little Miss Marker, Lucille Ball, Lucy, Mary Jane Saunders, Movies, Paramount Pictures, Sidney Landfield, Sorrowful Jones, Thomas Gomez, Walter Winchell, William Demarest

• LUCY BALL HALL?

  JUNE 16, 1938 Before meeting Desi Arnaz while making Too Many Girls, Lucille Ball was actually engaged to be married to divorced film director Alexander Hall, seventeen years her senior.   Alexander Hall made his stage debut in 1898 at age four. He entered films in 1914 as an actor. Leaving the film industry to serve…

  Michael T. Mooney

  June 16, 2020

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  Alexander Hall, Desi, Desi Arnaz, Down To Earth, Forever Darling, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Hollywood, Little Miss Marker, Lucille Ball, Lucy, Miss Fane’s Baby is Stolen, Movies, My Little Chickadee, Read Kendall, Shirley Temple, Sorrowful Jones, The Doctor Takes a Wife