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A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.Read moreLess
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
The story
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
Cast & crew
Lucille BallEllen Grant
William HoldenDick Richmond
Janis CarterPeggy Donato
James GleasonTimothy Gleason
Gloria HenryHelen White
Frank McHughKilcoyne
George ClevelandJudge Grant
Wanda PerryRuth (uncredited)
Roy RobertsRoberts - Construction Foreman (uncredited)
Will WrightRoscoe Johnson (uncredited)
Eddie AcuffBus Driver (uncredited)Explore the crew
- Screenplay
- Frank Tashlin
- Screenplay
- Nat Perrin
- Director
- Lloyd Bacon
- Screenplay
- Devery Freeman
- Director of Photography
- Charles Lawton Jr.
- Original Music Composer
- Heinz Roemheld
- Editor
- Jerome Thoms
- Producer
- S. Sylvan Simon