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Released October 02, 1957
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)
Warner Brothers
118 min. (Feature Film)

Biographical drama on the 1920s - 1930s career of singer Helen Morgan (Ann Blyth), from her carnival days to Broadway. With the help of ambitious bootlegger Larry Maddux (Paul Newman) and his partner Benny Weaver (Alan King), Helen finds herself singing in the speakeasies of New York, until married society millionaire Russell Wade falls for her, and introduces her to Broadway producer Flo Ziegfeld (Walter Woolf King). Cast as the lead in SHOWBOAT, Helen is the hit of Broadway and a national recording star. But Larry's ambition continues to take advantage of her fame, and depression over Wade's unavailability leads her to a quick decline into alcoholism, and a sanitarium.

Joe Besser has a brief appearance as a speakeasy bartender.

Filmed in CinemaScope.

Walter Woolf King ('Flo Ziegfeld') costarred with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in SWISS MISS (1938), and with The Marx Brothers in A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1935) and GO WEST (1940).

Richard Carlson ('Russell Wade') costarred with Abbott and Costello (and Shemp Howard) in HOLD THAT GHOST (1941).

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Avg. Rating: [6.00/10]
 
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Ann Blyth
Helen Morgan

Paul Newman
Larry Maddux

Alan King
Benny Weaver

Richard Carlson
Russell Wade

Dorothy Green
Mrs. Wade

Gene Evans
Whitey Krause

Edward Platt
Johnny Haggerty

Walter Reed
Loring Kirk

Gogi Grant
Voice dub for Ann Blyth

Walter Woolf King
Flo Ziegfeld

Warren Douglas
Mark Hellinger

Phil Arnold
Mr. Klingman

Iris Adrian
Klingman's secretary

Herb Vigran
Jim Finney

Leonid Kinskey
Stanislaus

Gayne Whitman
Big Ed Wallace

Bert Hanson
Eddie Bronson

Juanita Moore
Lacey, backstage maid

Maidie Norman
Helen's maid

Jack Lomas
Piano player

Corinna Mura
Guitarist

Joe Besser
Speakeasy bartender

Stuart Holmes
Speakeasy patron

Paul Bryar
Bartender

Fred Rapport
Maitre 'd

Juney Ellis
Waitress

Julie Reding
Cigarette girl

Kathy Marlowe
Girl at bar

Donald Kerr
Club customer

Cecil Elliot
Drunken woman

Betty Blythe
Party guest

Robert Clarke
Party guest

Eve Whitney
Society woman

Fred Sherman
Customs Inspector

John McKee
Inspector

Court Shepard
Police Lieutenant

John Truax
Policeman

Alan Sues
Producer

Eddie Marr
Director

Allen Wood
Stagehand / vendor

Taylor Holmes
Elderly actor

Tony Dante
Krause hood

Rory Mallinson
Pageant reporter

Joe Evans
Artist

Christine Nelson
Girl with boyish bob

Maurice Millard
Man in knickers

George Ramsey
Man in scarf

Salvatore Sportelli
Man with baby buggy

Mimi Reyes
Prostitute


Nelson Gidding
Screenplay

Dean Reisner
Screenplay

Oscar Saul
Screenplay

Ted D. McCord
Director of Photography

Frank Bracht
Film Editor

John Beckman
Art Director

Howard Bristol
Set Decoration

Ray Heindorf
Musical Director

Frank Comstock
Orchestrator

Gus Levene
Orchestrator

Jimmy McHugh
Original Music

Charles Henderson
Vocal Arrangements

Oscar Hammerstein
Music and Lyrics

Jerome Kern
Music and Lyrics

LeRoy Prinz
Choreographer

Howard Shoup
Costume Design

Gordon Bau
Makeup Supervisor

Paul Helmick
Assistant Director

Norman Stuart
Dialogue Director

Marilyn Reiss
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