Pocketful of Miracles
Damon Runyon's fairytale, sweet and funny, is told by director Frank Capra. Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their Runyonesque cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.
Comedy, Drama
Franton Production
Glenn Ford as Dave 'the Dude' Conway, Bette Davis as Apple Annie, Hope Lange as Elizabeth "Queenie" Martin, Arthur O'Connell as Count Alfonso Romero, Peter Falk as Joy Boy, Thomas Mitchell as Judge Henry G. Blake, Edward Everett Horton as Hutchins, Mickey Shaughnessy as Junior, David Brian as Governor, Sheldon Leonard as Steve Darcey, Ann-Margret as Louise, Barton MacLane as Police Commissioner (as Barton Maclane), John Litel as Police Inspector McCrary, Jerome Cowan as Mayor, Jay Novello as Cortego, Frank Ferguson as Newspaper Editor, Willis Bouchey as Newspaper Editor, Fritz Feld as Pierre, Ellen Corby as Soho Sal, Gavin Gordon as Mr. Cole, Benny Rubin as Flyaway, Jack Elam as Cheesecake, Mike Mazurki as Big Mike, Hayden Rorke as Police Captain Moore, Doodles Weaver as Pool Player, Betty Bronson as Mayor's Wife (uncredited), Paul E. Burns as Mallethead (uncredited), Marc Cavell as Young reporter at dock (uncredited), Bess Flowers as Pedestrian Entering Queenie Martin's Club (uncredited), Byron Foulger as Lloyd (uncredited), Kermit Maynard as Newspaper Editor (uncredited), 'Snub' Pollard as Knuckles (uncredited), Amanda Randolph as Annie's Neighbor (uncredited), George E. Stone as Shimkey (uncredited), Dick Wessel as Governor of Florida (uncredited), Grace Lee Whitney as Queenie's 'Broad' in Black Dress (uncredited), Peter Mann as Carlos Romero, Tom Fadden as Herbie - Hotel Employee (uncredited), Bert Stevens as Dock Extra (uncredited), Harry Wilson as Slop - Pretends to be Governor of Utah (uncredited)