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...opening scene was pure George Bellows-a seedy Bowery-type bar in the year 1912, littered with slumped and sleeping drunken bums.* Soaks of all descriptions-a Harvard man, a British infantry captain, a Boer War correspondent, a Negro gambler, an unbadged police lieutenant, a disillusioned anarchist-they had been reduced by rotgut to creatures of one baggy shape. What kept them hanging by a claw to life was the kindness of the drunken-bum saloonkeeper (finely played by Dudley Digges), and their pipe dreams, their mumbling that tomorrow would turn up a winning card or bring forth a better...
...honest living by running a bookstore, but her hard-earned nickels & dimes are frittered away by Grandpa (Frank Morgan), a lovable old scoundrel who cannot resist a pony or a poker game. When Barbara falls in love, her young man, of course, turns out to be another confirmed gambler (Robert Young...
...Fast Way. Heidt sold his annuities, put $200,000 in thousand-dollar bills in his pocket, called on the owner, a onetime gambler named Jimmy Contratto...
Eddie Cantor, Joel McCrea and Comedienne Joan Davis had perfectly ripping luck, publicity-wise. They happened to be in a Hollywood café when a couple of hoods trotted in to beat up a gambler. One of the visitors kept the glowing celebrities at bay with a rod while the other gave the gambler ten deep cuts on the head with a blackjack...
Died. Edward Riley Bradley, 86, onetime bookmaker and longtime "honest gambler," who became a multimillionaire as proprietor of Palm Beach's Casino, famed & respected owner of some of America's most famous race horses (Blue Larkspur, Bimelech, Bubbling Over), only four-time winner of the Kentucky Derby; in Lexington...