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Added: Dec 26, 2008
Lucille Ball delivers the finest dramatic performance of her career in this satisfying adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Big Street. Ball is cast as Gloria, aka "Your Highness," the vain and thoroughly selfish star attraction of gangster Case Ables' (Barton MacLaine) New York nightclub. Henry Fonda costars as busboy Little Pinks, who worships Gloria from afar. When Gloria is crippled by a fall downstairs-caused by a blow across the face by the sadistic Ables-Little Pinks selflessly waits upon the invalided and doggedly ungrateful songstress hand and foot. So devoted to Gloria is Pinks that he's willing to pilot her wheelchair from Manhattan to Florida so that she can renew her romance with callow playboy Decatur Reed (William Orr). Touched by Pinks' loyalty, his Runyonesque friends-Professor B (Ray Collins), Horsethief (Sam Levene), Mr. and Mrs. Nicely-Nicely Johnson (Eugene Pallette, Agnes Moorehead) and all the rest-raise enough money to open a Florida nightclub so that Gloria can put up a brave front. The ending is at once the most lachrymose and most effectively moving scene in the film, one that can only be spoiled if detailed here. Produced by Damon Runyon himself, The Big Street is one of the few completely successful filmed Runyon adaptations-as well as Lucille Ball's finest hour (and a half) on-screen. Henry Fonda - Little Pinks Lucille Ball - Gloria Agnes Moorehead - Violette Barton MacLane - Case Ables Eugene Pallette - Nicely Nicely Johnson Sam Levene - Horsethief Ray Collins - Professor B Marion Martin - Mrs. Venus William Orr - Decatur Reed George Cleveland - Col. Venus Vera Gordon - Mrs. Lefkowitz Louise Beavers - Maid Millard Mitchell - Gentleman George Juan Varro - Lou Adolia Hans Conried - Lonie, the Headwaiter John Miljan - McWhirter Don Barclay - M.C. Julius Tannen - Judge Bamberger Charles Cane - Cop Pedro de Cordoba - Doctor Mimi Doyle - Nurse at Hospital Eddie Dunn - Mulvaney Mary Halsey - Bit part Bert Hanlon - Philip, the Weeper John Indrisano - Mug at Mindy's Warren Jackson - Mug at Mindy's Donald Kirke - Surgeon George Magrill - Mug at Mindy's Richard Martin - Bit part Tony Merlo - Mug at Mindy's John Miller - Truck Driver Frank Moran - Mug Ozzie Nelson - Himself Bob Perry - Toupee Ralph Peters - Florist Addison Richards - Dr. Mitchell Dewey Robinson - Truck Driver Sammy Stein - Mug at Mindy's Mary Stuart - Bit part Elliott Sullivan - Tramp Ann Summers - Cashier Russell Wade - Bit part Marie Windsor - Girl
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