The Big Street
Summary:
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 Glori... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Henry Fonda - (Little Pinks)
Lucille Ball - (Gloria)
Agnes Moorehead - (Violette)
Barton MacLane - (Case Ables)
Eugene Pallette - (Nicely Nicely Johnson)
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Review:
Damon Runyon specialized in "parables of Broadway," and although sometimes those parables transferred very effectively to other media -- e.g., Guys and Dolls -- other times they did not. The Big Street is not bad, but it is marred by some excessive sentimentality and plot contrivances that strain credulity. While the figure of a man willin... Continue >>
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