Lady Luck (1946 film)

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Lady Luck
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
Screenplay byLynn Root
Frank Fenton
Story by Herbert Clyde Lewis
Produced by Warren Duff
Starring Robert Young
Barbara Hale
Frank Morgan
Cinematography Lucien Andriot
Edited by Ralph Dawson
Music by Leigh Harline
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • October 18, 1946 (1946-10-18) [1]
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$877,000 [2]

Lady Luck is a 1946 American comedy film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Robert Young, Barbara Hale and Frank Morgan. [3] [4] It was produced and distributed by RKO Pictures. The picture tells the story of a professional gambler who falls in love with a woman who hates gambling and tries to reform him.

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Plot

Mary Audrey cannot stand gambling. Her grandfather, William, whom she calls "Gramps," is a compulsive gambler. Mary puts him to work in her Beverly Hills book store to try to keep him away from his bad habit.

A professional gambler, Larry Scott, places a $200 wager with Gramps, who cannot pay up when Larry's horse wins. Larry falls for Mary, however, woos and weds her, then takes her for a Las Vegas honeymoon.

He reveals his real profession, but promises to give it up. However, he feels guilty for making a gambler lose all his money (around $80), so he plays craps until, after much effort, he wins the money back. Mary sees him doing so (without knowing the reason why) and angrily gets a quick divorce.

Sacramento Sam, a gambler pal of Larry's, hatches a scheme to turn her into a gambler, recruiting suave con man Dan Morgan to romance her and gradually get her to gamble. He gets a casino to let her win $500; Sam and Larry's other friends agree to reimburse the casino. However, Mary goes on a genuine epic winning streak and will not quit. Sam and the others go broke covering her winnings. She even wins a casino of her own and starts running it.

Larry returns to Beverly Hills, where he finds Gramps running a bookie operation out of the book store. Larry goes back to Vegas to try to persuade Mary to give up gambling. When he sees her in her hotel suite, he hears a man whistling in the other room. Furious he storms out. Later, he hears the same whistling and discovers the whistler is Gramps (who flew in on an airship).

Sam has another brainstorm. He will play Gramps, the casino's resident poker player. In the final hand, Sam bets all he has. Gramps calls his bluff (Sam missed out on a straight flush draw and has only a pair of 8's), but Gramps folds his winning full house, so Mary loses the casino and—as he had hoped—reconciles with Larry.

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References

  1. ↑ "Lady Luck: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved April 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ Jewell, Richard; Harbin, Vernon (1982). The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House. p. 213.
  3. ↑ Neibaur p.141
  4. ↑ Parish & Mank p.278

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