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