| Sorrowful Jones | |
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 1949 movie poster | |
| Directed by | Sidney Lanfield |
| Screenplay by | Melville Shavelson Edmund Hartmann Jack Rose |
| Story by | Damon Runyon |
| Produced by | Robert L. Welch |
| Starring | Bob Hope Lucille Ball William Demarest Mary Jane Saunders |
| Cinematography | Daniel L. Fapp |
| Edited by | Arthur P. Schmidt |
| Music by | Robert Emmett Dolan |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $3.4 million[1] |
Sorrowful Jones, also known as Damon Runyon's Sorrowful Jones, is a 1949 American comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lanfield. The film stars Lucille Ball and Bob Hope.
Sorrowful Jones was a remake of a 1934 Shirley Temple film, Little Miss Marker. In the film, a young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones (Hope) as a marker for a bet. When her father does not return, he learns that caring for a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Lucille Ball plays a nightclub singer who is dating Sorrowful's boss. Ball's singing voice is provided by Annette Warren, who also sang for her in Fancy Pants and later provided the singing voice for Ava Gardner in Show Boat.
- ^ "Top Grossers of 1949". Variety. 4 January 1950. p. 59.