Sorrowful Jones
Sorrowful Jones
Release: 1949-07-04
·Runtime: 88m
·★ 6.1
Comedy
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Paramount Pictures
Cast
Houseley Stevenson
as Doc Chesley
Marc Krah
as Nick, the Barber (uncredited)
Thomas Gomez
as Reardon
Ben Welden
as Big Steve's Bodyguard
Harry Tyler
as Blinky (uncredited)
Mary Jane Saunders
as Martha Jane Smith
Emmett Vogan
as Psychiatrist
Sayre Dearing
as Spectator (uncredited)
Arthur Space
as Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)
Bob Hope
as Humphrey "Sorrowful" Jones
Tom Pedi
as Once Over Sam
Orley Lindgren
as Bit Part (uncredited)
Bert Stevens
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
George Magrill
as Horse Player (uncredited)
Bruce Cabot
as Big Steve Holloway
Kenner G. Kemp
as Bookmaker (uncredited)
Louise Lorimer
as Nurse-Receptionist (uncredited)
Lucille Ball
as Gladys O'Neill
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
as Bookie (uncredited)
Frank Mills
Erville Alderson
as Happy the Mortician (uncredited)
Ralph Peters
as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
Claire Carleton
as Agnes 'Happy Hips' Noonan (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing
as Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited)
Annette Warren
as Gladys O'Neill (singing voice) (uncredited)
Jay Eaton
as Horse Player (uncredited)
John 'Skins' Miller
as Head Telephone Man (uncredited)
Selmer Jackson
as Doctor (uncredited)
Suzanne Ridgway
as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
William Demarest
as Regret
Patsy O'Byrne
as Mrs. Oliver Sims (uncredited)
Maurice Cass
as Psychiatrist (uncredited)
Bob Kortman
as Horse Player (uncredited)
Sid Tomack
as Waiter at Steve's Place (uncredited)
Walter Winchell
as Himself (voice) (uncredited)
