Lady Luck | |
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Directed by | Edwin L. Marin |
Screenplay by | Lynn 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 |
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Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.
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 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 without revealing his real profession.
Mary discovers the truth and angrily arranges a quick divorce. Sacramento Sam, a gambler pal of Larry's, hatches a scheme with the casino's help. Mary will be permitted to win $500 gambling by the house, with Larry and Sam secretly covering the bet. Maybe she will not hate gambling so much this way.
It works, but too well. Mary begins genuinely winning and will not quit. Larry and Sam go broke covering her bets. Larry returns to Beverly Hills, where he finds Gramps running a bookie operation out of the book store. They go back to Vegas and have everything riding on one last game of poker, which Gramps loses deliberately so Larry can win the money and Mary's heart.
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