Sorrowful Jones

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Sorrowful Jones
1949 movie poster
Directed by	Sidney Lanfield
Produced by	Robert L. Welch
Written by	Edmund L. Hartmann Melville Shavelson from the story by Damon Runyon
Starring	Bob Hope Lucille Ball William Demarest Mary Jane Saunders
Music by	Robert Emmett Dolan
Cinematography	Daniel L. Fapp
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	June 5, 1949
Running time	88 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
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Sorrowful Jones is a 1949 film directed by Sidney Lanfield. The film stars Lucille Ball and Bob Hope.

Sorrowful Jones was a remake of a 1934 Shirley Temple film, Little Miss Marker. In the film, a young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones (Hope) as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Lucille Ball plays a nightclub singer who is dating Sorrowful's boss.