Sorrowful Jones

1949
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1h 28m

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Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, and Mary Jane Saunders in Sorrowful Jones (1949)

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. Her father disappears and he learns that taking care of her cramps his free-wheeling life. Sorrowful mu... Read allA young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. Her father disappears and he learns that taking care of her cramps his free-wheeling life. Sorrowful must evade gangsters and do some horse-thieving.A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. Her father disappears and he learns that taking care of her cramps his free-wheeling life. Sorrowful must evade gangsters and do some horse-thieving.

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6.8/10

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Trivia
First of four feature films that Bob Hope and Lucille Ball made together.

Goofs
A moving shadow of the boom microphone is visible on the wall as Sorrowful walks up to greet "Happy Hips" Noonan on the street.

Quotes
Humphrey 'Sorrowful' Jones: [kneeling next to the bathtub, and has just begun to scrub Martha Jane's back when the doorbell rings] Saved by the bell!
Martha Jane Smith: [enthusiastically] Do you want me to answer it?
Humphrey 'Sorrowful' Jones: Not in that costume.

Connections
Featured in Bob Hope's Love Affair with Lucy (1989)

Soundtracks
Havin' a Wonderful Wish (Time You Were Here)
Music by Jay Livingston
Lyrics by Ray Evans
Sung by Lucille Ball (dubbed by Annette Warren (uncredited))

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6/10

One Hopeless Marker

Sorrowful Jones is both the first time Bob Hope teamed up with Lucille Ball as a leading lady and it's his first try at a Damon Runyon character. It succeeded, but it's not as good as some of the other of Bob Hope's Forties comedies.

This is a remake of Little Miss Marker where Adolphe Menjou played the role of Sorrowful Jones. The problem with this version is that in the first one the main character is the little girl left as a human marker for bookie Sorrowful Jones. The little girl back then was Shirley Temple and it was a Shirley Temple picture.

No child was going to steal the spotlight from Bob Hope and this one has the emphasis on Hope's character which is all wrong. Little Mary Jane Saunders is not Shirley Temple, but who is. Anyway she does not steal the film from Hope and that's wrong.

On the plus side Hope and Lucille Ball show some really good chemistry and they did far better in their next film together Fancy Pants. Also look for good performances from Bruce Cabot as the gambling kingpin and from William Demarest as Hope's sidekick.

But if you want to see Hope and Ball at their best I recommend Fancy Pants.