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- Loosely based on a Damon Runyon short story, the second of a score adapted to the screen, the movie casts a cheerful and trusting little girl into the unlikely custody of a motley mob of raffish bookies, race-horse touts, gangsters, gold-diggers, pugs, mugs, and petty crooks.
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Little Miss Marker (also known as The Girl in Pawn) is an American pre-Code 1934 comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Hall. It was written by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, and Gladys Lehman after a 1932 short story of the same name by Damon Runyon.
Loosely based on a Damon Runyon short story, the second of a score adapted to the screen, the movie casts a cheerful and trusting little girl into the unlikely custody of a motley mob of raffish bookies, race-horse touts, gangsters, gold-diggers, pugs, mugs, and petty crooks.
Little Miss Marker is a 1980 American comedy drama film written and directed by Walter Bernstein and based on a short story by Damon Runyon. It stars Walter Matthau, Tony Curtis, Julie Andrews, Bob Newhart and new arrival Sara Stimson.
Little Miss Marker is a 1934 comedy film based on a short story by Damon Runyon, directed by Alexander Hall and starring Shirley Temple and Adolphe Menjou.
When a bookie (Adolphe Menjou) accepts the young daughter (Shirley Temple) of a suicidal gambler as collateral, he and the moll (Dorothy Dell) of a local gangster (Charles Bickford) end up caring for her — but when Temple starts to pick up bad habits and slang, they realize they must craft a recreation of King Arthur’s legend to restore her fait...
Little Miss Marker ★★★ Girl in Pawn 1934. Heartwarming story starring Temple as the title character, who is left with bookie Sorrowful Jones (Menjou) as the IOU for a gambling debt. But when her father doesn't return, it's up to Jones and his racetrack friends to make little Marky a home.
Little Miss Marker is based on a Damon Runyon story of the same name. In the story, however, there is no Hollywood ending: Marky contracts pneumonia and, despite the efforts of those who have adopted her, she dies. Moreover, the story lacks the Arthurian element found in the film.
