Bookie Sorrowful Jones receives a little girl as an IOU.Bookie Sorrowful Jones receives a little girl as an IOU.Bookie Sorrowful Jones receives a little girl as an IOU.
- Awards
- 1 win
- Sun Rise
- (as Jack Sheehan)
- Grinder
- (as Gary Owen)
- Dizzy Memphis
- (as Sleep 'n Eat)
- Eddie
- (as Puggy White)
- Bettor
- (uncredited)
- Bookie
- (uncredited)
- Bettor
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAdolphe Menjou was having difficulty with a particular line in the script. After the prompting of others on the set, Shirley Temple turned to director Alexander Hall and asked, "Is it too late to replace Mr. Menjou on this picture?"
- GoofsWhen Marky asks to sit on the piano, Bangles leans down and picks her up. In the next shot, she leans down and picks Marky up again.
- Quotes
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Can you write a letter to God like you do to Santa Claus?
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: No, that's where praying comes in.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Bad girls like me can't pray.
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Aw, you ain't a bad girl.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Then show me how to pray. I want to ask God for something.
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: You would. You lay down and go to sleep.
Marthy Jane, Little Miss Marker: Regret knows everything. I'll ask Regret to show me how to pray.
Sorrowful 'Sir Sorry' Jones: Don't you go asking that mug Regret about anything. I'll show you how to pray.
- Alternate versionsThe print shown on TCM is a re-release, as can be seen from the PCA approval certificate number ending with "-R". That print lists Shirley Temple above the title, followed by Adolphe Menjou, Charles Bickford and Dorothy Dell and the other actors. The title page also includes "Adolph Zukor presents" and it has a running time of 79 minutes.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling (1993)
- SoundtracksI'm a Black Sheep Who's Blue
(1934) (uncredited)
Music by Ralph Rainger
Lyrics by Leo Robin
Sung by Dorothy Dell in the cabaret
This movie may be disappointing for Shirley Temple fans as she does relative little. Most of the movie concerns the rough gangsters whose life is disrupted by her. They are wonderful characters, while Temple does little more than act like "the doll" that the characters often call her.
Adolph Menjou and Dorothy Dell really carries the movie. Menjou gives an hilariously understated performance as cheap gambler "Sorrowful Jones" Menjou was a fashionable dresser, so it is particularly funny to see him unkempt in wrinkled clothes for most of the movie. Whereas Walter Matthau played the role with a wink, Menjou plays it quite straight. Sorrowful Jones is a sorrowful human being in this movie. Dorothy Dell gives a terrific Mae West style performance as gangster moll/nightclub singer Bangles Carson. It is assured and polished, and it is impossible to believe that she was only 19 when she did it.
Incidentally Dorothy Dell and Dorothy Lamour were best friends as teenagers. When she won the Miss USA beauty pageant, Dorothy Dell invited Dorothy Lamour to come with her to Hollywood. In her autobiography, "My Side of the Road," Lamour notes that they went to the premiere of the Marx's Brother's "Animal Crackers" together in 1930. Dell helped and influenced Lamour to start her career.
Also watch some of the great comic actors in small parts here. Lynn Overman as Regret and Warren Hymer as Sore Toe are flawless.
This film is more than an excellent Shirley Temple star vehicle, it a comic masterpiece with Shirley Temple as the icing on the cake.
- jayraskin
- Jun 11, 2011
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1