The Stork Club

• Director: Hal Walker
• AMG Rating:
• Genre: Musical
• Movie Type: Showbiz Comedy, Backstage Musical
• Themes: Cinderella Stories, Rags To Riches, Dancer's Life
• Main Cast: Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore, Andy Russell, Iris Adrian, Robert Benchley
• Release Year: 1945
• Country: US
• Run Time: 98 minutes

Plot

The Stork Club, the famed New York nightspot immortalized by columnist Walter Winchell (in return for special favors from its owners), is the setting for this typically brash Betty Hutton musical. Hutton plays a young hat check girl who rescues an elderly tramp (Barry Fitzgerald) from drowning. The old bum turns out to be a millionaire, and expresses his gratitude by setting up Hutton in luxury--asking for nothing in return. Hutton's boyfriend Don DeFore suspects hanky panky, but all is forgiven during the obligatory floor show. There are rumors that the Stork Club itself financed The Stork Club as a feature-length commercial. Whatever the case, ownership of the film was cloudy enough to allow it to slip into the public domain in 1982, which explains why Stork Club seems to be running 24 hours a day on cable TV. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Betty Hutton - Judy Peabody
• Barry Fitzgerald - Jerry B. Bates
• Don DeFore - Danny Wilton
• Andy Russell - Jim
• Iris Adrian - Gwen
• Robert Benchley - Tom Curtis

Bill Goodwin - Sherman Billingsley; Mary Young - Mrs. Edith Bates; Charles Coleman - Bates' butler; Perc Launders - Tom; Mikhail Rasumny - Coretti; Sam Ash - Ringsider; Mae Busch - Vera; Anthony Caruso - Joe, the Fisherman; Mary Currier - Hazel Billingsley; Jimmie Dundee - Fred, the Fisherman; Franklin Farnum - Diner; Reed Howes - Patron; Roberta Jonay - Molly, the Check Girl; Noel Neill - Jacqueline Billingsley; Cosmo Sardo - Rocco, Stork Club waiter; Grady Sutton - Peter, salesman; Pierre Watkin - Hotel manager; Audrey Wilder - Jenny - check girl; Gloria Donovan - Barbara Billingsley

Credit

Hans Dreier - Art Director, Earl Hedrick - Art Director, Harold Wilson - Associate Producer, Billy Daniels - Choreography, Edith Head - Costume Designer, Hal Walker - Director, Gladys Carley - Editor, Robert Emmett Dolan - Composer (Music Score), Robert Emmett Dolan - Musical Direction/Supervision, Wally Westmore - Makeup, Farciot Edouart - Cinematographer, Charles B. Lang - Cinematographer, Farciot Deouart - Cinematographer, Buddy G. DeSylva - Producer, Sam Comer - Set Designer, Hugo Grenzbach - Sound/Sound Designer, Walter Oberst - Sound/Sound Designer, Buddy G. DeSylva - Screenwriter, Jack McGowan - Screenwriter, John McGowan - Screenwriter

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