Angels over Broadway

Plot

In the Ben Hecht-scripted Angels over Broadway. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays a poker hustler working in cahoots with good-time girl Rita Hayworth. Alcoholic playwright Thomas Mitchell, having saved embezzler John Qualen from suicide, decides to enter Fairbanks' high-stakes game, using Qualen as an easy-mark "bait." Mitchell's clever schemes to beat Fairbanks come acropper, but Fairbanks has a sudden change of heart and decides it's more fun to perform good deeds. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Cast

• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - Bill O'Brien
• Rita Hayworth - Nina Barona
• Thomas Mitchell - Gene Gibbons
• John Qualen - Charles Engle
• George Watts - Hopper
• Ralph Theodore - Dutch Enright

Eddie Foster - Louie Artino; Jack Roper - Eddie Burns; Constance Worth - Sylvia Marbe; Harry Antrim - Court Clerk; Walter S. Baldwin - Rennick; Richard Bond - Sylvia's Escort; Stanley Brown - Master of Ceremonies; Jack Carr - Tony; Frank Conlan - Joe; Jimmy Conlin - Pawn Shop Proprietor; Carmen D'Antonio - Specialty Dancer; Edward Earle - Headwaiter; Roger Gray - Gambler; Carlton Elliott Griffin - Waiter; Ethelreda Leopold - Cigarette Girl; Blanche Payson - Large Woman; Lee Phelps - Police Lieutenant; Walter Sande - Lunch Wagon Waiter; Al Seymour - Jack; Harry Strang - Gambler; John Tyrrell - Cabby; Billy Wayne - Taxi Driver; Lee Garmes; Ben Hecht; Jerry Jerome - Gambler; Bill Lally - Doorman; Al Rhein - Gambler; Catherine Courtney - Miss Karpin; Tommy Dixon - Checkroom Boy; Art Howard - Night Court Judge; Patricia Maier - Girl

Credit

Lionel Banks - Art Director, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - Associate Producer, Ray Howell - Costume Designer, Robert Kalloch - Costume Designer, Cliff P. Broughton - First Assistant Director, Lee Garmes - Director, Ben Hecht - Director, Gene Havlick - Editor, George Antheil - Composer (Music Score), Morris W. Stoloff - Musical Direction/Supervision, Lee Garmes - Cinematographer, Ben Hecht - Producer, Ben Hecht - Screenwriter

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