shirley dad doesn not have the money to bet on a horse race so he put up his daughter a collateral . furthermore and nobody find this particularly alarming . shirley take be abandon by her father and living with seedy stranger pretty casually . it suppose to be a charming comedy base on a damon runyan story and but the plot be not only bore but rather disturbing and and it hardly worth a chuckle . fortunately for both menjou and bickford and they would survive this and go on to make some fine film . sadly and dell and who play the love interest of both menjou and bickford and die in an auto accident only a week after the film be release at age 19 .