Sorrowful Jones

Sorrowful Jones

88 mins | Comedy | July 4, 1949

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.

Sorrowful Jones

88 mins | Comedy | July 4, 1949

Sorrowful Jones
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.
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Paramount
Original title Sorrowful Jones
Directors Oscar Rudolph, Sidney Lanfield
Writers Damon Runyon, Edmund L. Hartmann, Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson

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

Paul Lees

as Orville Smith

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)

Ethel Bryant

as Nurse (uncredited)

John Butler

as Jack, Bettor on Green Demon (uncredited)

Claire Carleton

as Agnes 'Happy Hips' Noonan (uncredited)

Douglas Carter

as Horse Player (uncredited)

Bill Cartledge

as First Jockey (uncredited)

Maurice Cass

as Psychiatrist (uncredited)

George Chan

as Chinese Man (uncredited)

Noble Chissell

as Bookie (uncredited)

Michael Cirillo

as Horse Player (uncredited)

Tony Cirillo

as Horse Player (uncredited)

Charles Cooley

as Shorty (uncredited)

James Cornell

as Horse Player (uncredited)

Betty Corner

as Nurse (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing

as Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited)

Sayre Dearing

as Spectator (uncredited)

Jay Eaton

as Horse Player (uncredited)

Sam Finn

as Horse Player (uncredited)

Joe Gray

as Gambler (uncredited)

Chuck Hamilton

as Policeman (uncredited)

Henry Hope

as Motorcyclist (uncredited)

Jerry Hunter

as Newsboy (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)

Pat Lane

as Bookie (uncredited)

Orley Lindgren

as Bit Part (uncredited)

Louise Lorimer

as Nurse-Receptionist (uncredited)

George Magrill

as Horse Player (uncredited)

John Mallon

as Horse Player (uncredited)

Speer Martin

as Jockey (uncredited)

John "Skins" Miller

as Head Telephone Man (uncredited)

Ralph Montgomery

as Horse Player (uncredited)

Patsy O'Byrne

as Mrs. Oliver Sims (uncredited)

Ralph Peters

as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)

Dario Piazza

as Horse Player (uncredited)

Sally Rawlinson

as Nurse (uncredited)

Allen Ray

as Horse Player (uncredited)

Suzanne Ridgway

as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Eddie Rio

as Bookie (uncredited)

Jack Roberts

as Horse Player (uncredited)

John Shay

as Doctor (uncredited)

Billy Snyder

as Bookie (uncredited)

Arthur Space

as Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)

Bert Stevens

as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

Delmar Thomas

as Exercise Boy (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)

William Yip

as Bookie (uncredited)