Sorrowful Jones
Funnier Than "The Paleface"!
1949 | 88m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Sidney Lanfield |
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| Writer: | Damon Runyon, Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, Edmund L. Hartmann |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jul 04, 1949 |
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| Director: | Sidney Lanfield |
| Writer: | Damon Runyon, Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, Edmund L. Hartmann |
| Genres: | Comedy |
| Keywords | |
| Production Companies | Paramount Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 (Update) Entered: Apr 20, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Bob Hope | Humphrey "Sorrowful" Jones |
| Lucille Ball | Gladys O'Neill |
| William Demarest | Regret |
| Bruce Cabot | Big Steve Holloway |
| Thomas Gomez | Reardon |
| Tom Pedi | Once Over Sam |
| Paul Lees | Orville Smith |
| Houseley Stevenson | Doc Chesley |
| Ben Welden | Big Steve's Bodyguard |
| Emmett Vogan | Psychiatrist |
| Mary Jane Saunders | Martha Jane Smith |
| Erville Alderson | Happy the Mortician (uncredited) |
| Ethel Bryant | Nurse (uncredited) |
| John Butler | Jack, Bettor on Green Demon (uncredited) |
| Claire Carleton | Agnes 'Happy Hips' Noonan (uncredited) |
| Douglas Carter | Horse Player (uncredited) |
| Bill Cartledge | First Jockey (uncredited) |
| Maurice Cass | Psychiatrist (uncredited) |
| George Chan | Chinese Man (uncredited) |
| Noble 'Kid' Chissell | Bookie (uncredited) |
| Michael Cirillo | Horse Player (uncredited) |
| Tony Cirillo | Horse Player (uncredited) |
| Charles Cooley | Shorty (uncredited) |
| James Cornell | Horse Player (uncredited) |
| Betty Corner | Nurse (uncredited) |
| Edgar Dearing | Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited) |
| Sayre Dearing | Spectator (uncredited) |
| Jay Eaton | Horse Player (uncredited) |
| Sam Finn | Horse Player (uncredited) |
| Joe Gray | Gambler (uncredited) |
| Chuck Hamilton | Policeman (uncredited) |
| Henry Hope | Motorcyclist (uncredited) |
| Jerry Hunter | Newsboy (uncredited) |
| Selmer Jackson | Doctor (uncredited) |
| Kenner G. Kemp | Bookmaker (uncredited) |
| Bob Kortman | Horse Player (uncredited) |
| Marc Krah | Nick, the Barber (uncredited) |
| Pat Lane | Bookie (uncredited) |
| Orley Lindgren | Bit Part (uncredited) |
| Louise Lorimer | Nurse-Receptionist (uncredited) |
| George Magrill | Horse Player (uncredited) |
| John Mallon | Horse Player (uncredited) |
| Speer Martin | Jockey (uncredited) |
| John "Skins" Miller | Head Telephone Man (uncredited) |
| Ralph Montgomery | Horse Player (uncredited) |
| Patsy O'Byrne | Mrs. Oliver Sims (uncredited) |
| Ralph Peters | Taxicab Driver (uncredited) |
| Dario Piazza | Horse Player (uncredited) |
| Sally Rawlinson | Nurse (uncredited) |
| Allen Ray | Horse Player (uncredited) |
| Suzanne Ridgway | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) |
| Eddie Rio | Bookie (uncredited) |
| Jack Roberts | Horse Player (uncredited) |
| John Shay | Doctor (uncredited) |
| Billy Snyder | Bookie (uncredited) |
| Arthur Space | Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited) |
| Bert Stevens | Nightclub Patron (uncredited) |
| Delmar Thomas | Exercise Boy (uncredited) |
| Sid Tomack | Waiter at Steve's Place (uncredited) |
| Harry Tyler | Blinky (uncredited) |
| Annette Warren | Gladys O'Neill (singing voice) (uncredited) |
| Walter Winchell | Himself (voice) (uncredited) |
| William Yip | Bookie (uncredited) |
| Frank Mills | |
| James Davies |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Sidney Lanfield | Director |
| Damon Runyon | Story |
| Melville Shavelson | Screenplay |
| Jack Rose | Screenplay |
| Daniel L. Fapp | Director of Photography |
| Sam Comer | Set Decoration |
| Wally Westmore | Makeup Supervisor |
| Oscar Rudolph | Assistant Director |
| Jay Livingston | Songs |
| Harold Lewis | Sound Recordist |
| John Cope | Sound Recordist |
| Edmund L. Hartmann | Screenplay |
| Hans Dreier | Art Direction |
| Albert Nozaki | Art Direction |
| Gordon Jennings | Special Effects |
| Bertram C. Granger | Set Decoration |
| Robert Emmett Dolan | Original Music Composer |
| Arthur P. Schmidt | Editor |
| Mary Kay Dodson | Costume Design |
| Ray Evans | Songs |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Robert L. Welch | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 3 |
| 2024 | 6 | 4 | 12 | 1 |
| 2024 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 3 |
| 2024 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
| 2024 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Trending Position
Rock-a-bye Baby at Pimlico. Damon Runyon's Little Miss Marker had already been filmed in 1934 as a Shirley Temple starrer, this remake changes the title and brings in the star power of Bob Hope and Lucille Ball, with great results. Story has Hope as sly bookie Sorrowful Jones, who after accept ... ing a five year old girl as a betting marker, gets lumbered with the child when her father is wasted by gangster Big Steve Holloway (Bruce Cabot). Initially a fish out of water with the kid, Sorrowful strikes up a loving relationship with her and aided by his ex-girlfriend, Gladys O'Neill (Ball), fights to keep the child out of an orphanage. It's not - as some of the posters proclaim - funnier than Paleface (either of them since the sequel is better), in fact it's not close to the funny heights achieved by Hope's next Runyon adapted picture, The Lemon Drop Kid. However, Sorrowful Jones is funny, Hope gets to deliver some absolute corking lines that are guaranteed to at the least put a big grin on your face, but there's a semi-seriousness to it all which thankfully works a treat alongside the quips and wonderfully strange situations that Jones finds himself in. With a weighty support cast that also features William Demarest and Thomas Gomez helping things along, and young Mary Jane Saunders adorable beyond compare, this is a little cracker of a picture to brighten your day. 7/10