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Frankie And Johnny

1936, Movie, NR, 66 mins

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A mess from beginning to end, this was one of the first pictures to be based on a song. Chester Morris is dull as Johnny, a country bumpkin who wanders into a St. Louis sporting house (brothel) where Helen Morgan is Frankie, the in-house vocalist. They marry, and he begins cheating on her with Lilyan Tashman, who plays Nellie Bly. (Tashman died before the picture was released, two years after it was made--there were lots of hassles with the Hays Office over the depiction of ... read more leave a comment
Year: 1936
Rated NR

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Cast
Helen Morgan: Frankie
Chester Morris: Johnny
Florence Reed: Lou
Walter Kingsford: Timothy
William Harrigan: Curley
John Larkin: Andy

 

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