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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
Genres:
Comedy, Family
Release:
June 1934
Production:
B.P. Schulberg Productions, Paramount Pictures
Cast:
Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, Charles Bickford, Dorothy Dell, Warren Hymer, Lynne Overman, Sam Hardy, John Kelly, Frank McGlynn Sr., John Sheehan, Frank Conroy, Ernie Adams, Edward Earle, James Burke, Mildred Gover, Willie Best, Garry Owen, Huey White, Tammany Young, Veda Buckland, Crauford Kent, Pauline Wagner
Tags:
prayer, motherly love, little girl, orphan, bookie, mother figure, bedtime story, father figure, betting, gambling racket, abandoned child, collateral, blood donor, race horse, bookies
