Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 136 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
- new york city
- prohibition era
- gangster
- deception
- apple
- makeover
- luck
- dowager
- high society
- peddler
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Glenn Ford
Dave 'The Dude' Conway
Bette Davis
Apple Annie
Hope Lange
Elizabeth 'Queenie' Martin
Arthur O'Connell
Count Alfonso Romero
- Peter Falk — Joy Boy
- Thomas Mitchell — Judge Henry G. Blake
- Edward Everett Horton — Hudgins
- Mickey Shaughnessy — Junior
- David Brian — Governor
- Sheldon Leonard — Steve Darcey
- Peter Mann — Carlos Romero
- Ann-Margret — Louise
- Barton MacLane — Police Commissioner
- John Litel — Police Inspector McCrary
- Jerome Cowan — Mayor
- Directed
- Frank Capra
- Written
- Harry Tugend, Hal Kanter, Damon Runyon
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 188 ratings
- Studio
- Franton Production, United Artists
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
