Wabash Avenue

Wabash Avenue

92 mins | Music | March 31, 1950

Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.

Wabash Avenue

92 mins | Music | March 31, 1950

Wabash Avenue
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title Wabash Avenue
Directors Henry Koster
Writers Charles Lederer, Harry Tugend

Cast

Betty Grable

as Ruby Summers

Victor Mature

as Andy Clark

Phil Harris

as Mike Stanley

Reginald Gardiner

as English Eddie

James Barton

as Harrigan

Barry Kelley

as Bouncer

Margaret Hamilton

as Tillie Hutch

Percy Helton

as Ship captain

Marie Bryant

as Elsa

Robin Raymond

as Jennie

Dorothy Neumann

as Reformer

Collette Lyons

as Beulah

Charles Arnt

as Horace Carter