BLOODHOUNDS OF BROADWAY

Bloodhounds of Broadway
(aka "Damon Runyon's Bloodhounds of Broadway")
20th Century-Fox, 1952, Color, 90 minutes, ***½
Released November, 1952

Hustlers, mobsters, showgirls and show tunes unite in this Damon Runyon tale about a gambler who bets on love. Filled with "laughs and romance" (Boxoffice), "lively production numbers" (Cue) and "spry tunes" (Time), Bloodhounds of Broadway is a "musical treat" (Hollywood Reporter) in Technicolor.

Numbers Foster (Scott Brady) is a bookie with a gift - he can figure out even the most bewildering numbers in his head. But when his talent leads to trouble with the law, he and his hypochondriac partner, Poorly Sammis (Wally Vernon), must go on the lam. While hiding out in backwoods Georgia, they meet up with a hillbilly songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee (Mitzi Gaynor). Numbers gambles on her talent and brings Emily Ann home with him to Broadway where she becomes an overnight sensation. With trouble still stirring and his jealous ex-starlet girlfriend Yvonne (Marguerite Chapman) spilling to the feds, Numbers knows that Emily Ann just might be his ticket to the straight life.

Produced by: George Jessel
Directed by: Harmon Jones
Assistant Director: Stanley Hough
Screen Play by: Sy Gomberg
Adaptation by: Albert Mannheimer
Musical Direction: Lionel Newman
Vocal Direction: Eliot Daniel
"Bye Low" Music and Lyrics by Eliot Daniel
"Jack O' Diamonds" written by Ben Oakland and Paul Webster
Musical Numbers Staged by: Robert Sidney
Musical Settings: Joseph C. Wright
Orchestration: Earle Hagen
Art Direction: Lyle Wheeler, J. Russell Spencer
Set Decorations: Thomas Little, Fred J. Rode
Wardrobe Direction: Charles Le Maire
Costumes Designed by: Travilla
Makeup Artist: Ben Nye
Sound: Bernard Freericks, Harry M. Leonard
Director of Photography: Edward Cronjager
Special Photographic Effects: Ray Kellogg
Color by Technicolor
Technicolor Color Consultant: Leonard Doss
Film Editor: George A. Gittens

Cast: Mitzi Gaynor [Emily Ann Stackerlee], Scott Brady ["Numbers" Foster], Mitzi Green [Tessie Sammis], Marguerite Chapman [Yvonne], Michael O'Shea [Inspector McNamara], Wally Vernon ["Poorly" Sammis], Henry Slate [Dave the Dude], George E. Stone [Ropes McGonigle], Edwin Max [Lookout Louie], Richard Allan [Curtaintime Charlie], Additional Cast: Sharon Baird [Little Elida], Bill Walker [Uncle Old Fella], Timothy Carey [Crockett Pace], Alfred Mizner [Foy Pace], Paul Wexler [Theo Pace], Charles Bronson ["Pittsburgh Philo"], Dayton Lummis [Chairman], David Wolfe [Counsel], Al Hill [Bookie], Charles Tannen [Bookie on phone], Ralph Volkie [Frankie Ferraccio], Henry Corden [Selly Bennett], Bee Humphries [Apple Annie], Phil Tully [Detective Lt. Moran], Gregg Martell [Detective Sgt. Kelly], Emile Meyer [Skipper], Mabel Paige [Madame Moana], Mary Wickes [Lady at Laundry], A. Cameron Grant [Man in Gym], Harold Miller, Bess Flowers [Nightclub Extras], Al Green [Nightclub Drunk], Kenner G. Kemp [Dance Extra]

Musical Program: [0:01] Broadway Rhythm (sung by Chorus behind titles); [0:02] You Send Me (sung by Marguerite Chapman); [0:13] In the Sweet By and By (sung by Mitzi Gaynor and Children); [0:20] Cindy (sung and danced by Sharon Baird and Mitzi Gaynor, accompanied by record player); [0:29] Bye Low (sung by Mitzi Gaynor); [0:40] I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin' (sung and danced by Mitzi Green, Mitzi Gaynor and Richard Allan); [0:45] dance montage (danced by Mitzi Gaynor); [0:57] Eighty Miles Outside of Atlanta (sung and danced by Mitzi Gaynor and Chorus of four male hillbillies); [1:01] I Wish I Knew (sung by Mitzi Gaynor and Chorus, danced by Mitzi and Richard Allan); [1:12] I Wish I Knew (reprised by Mitzi Gaynor); [1:25] Jack o' Diamonds (production number sung and danced by Mitzi Gaynor and Chorus)