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Little Miss Marker (1934)

Little Miss Marker (1934)

Comedy Family
Release Date: 1934, June 1
Directors: Alexander Hall
Countries: United States of America
Production: B.P. Schulberg Productions, B.P. Schulberg Productions, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Pictures
Cast: Ernie Adams, Garry Owen, Edward Earle, Adolphe Menjou, John Kelly, Sam Hardy, Frank Conroy, James Burke, Veda Buckland, Frank McGlynn Sr., Charles Bickford, Crauford Kent

Overview:

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.

Keywords:

orphan little girl father figure prayer abandoned child mother figure motherly love betting bedtime story bookie collateral blood donor gambling racket race horse bookies