Girls Can Play

Girls Can Play

59 mins | Drama, Crime | June 23, 1937

The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris (John Gallaudet), is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey (Jacqueline Wells).

Girls Can Play

59 mins | Drama, Crime | June 23, 1937

Girls Can Play
The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris (John Gallaudet), is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey (Jacqueline Wells).
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title Girls Can Play
Directors Lambert Hillyer
Writers Lambert Hillyer, Albert DeMond

Cast

Charles Quigley

as Jimmy Jones

Julie Bishop

as Ann Casey

John Gallaudet

as Foy Harris

Rita Hayworth

as Sue Collins

Guinn "Big Boy" Williams

as Det. Lt. Ed Flannagan

Gene Morgan

as Pete, press photographer sidekick

Joseph Crehan

as Editor Brophy

John Tyrrell

as Danny Maschio

George McKay

as Sluggy, the stuttering umpire

Patricia Farr

as Peanuts O'Malley

Harry Tyler

as Sports Editor Dugan

Lucille Lund

as Line Place-holder Jane Harmon

Beatrice Blinn

as Waitress May

Richard Terry

as Henchman Cisto

George Lloyd

as Phil Balter, escapee

James Flavin

as Det. Bill O'Malley

Evelyn Selbie

as Restaurant Fortune Teller

Richard Kipling

as Mr. Raymond

Lee Shumway

as Police Captain

Ann Doran

as Alice, Brophy's secretary

Eddie Fetherston

as Detective Outside Drugstore