Lucky Partners (1940)
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Lewis Milestone directs the lightweight romantic comedy Lucky Partners, based on a story by Sacha Guitry. David Grant (Ronald Colman) is an artist in New York's Greenwich Village. After he wishes good luck to passing ingenue Jean Newton (Ginger Rogers), she is immediately offered a beautiful dress. Thinking that David is lucky, she agrees to go in with him on a ticket for the Irish Sweepstakes. Their horse wins the race, and he asks her to accompany her to Niagara Falls to celebrate their winnings. Jean's fiancé, Freddie Harper (Jack Carson), is not pleased about the arrangement, so he follows them. Eventually Jean and David fall for each other and they end up in the courthouse, where the judge ($Harry Davenport) sorts everything out in favor of the new couple. Lucky Partners was released in 1940, the same year Rogers gave her Oscar-winning performance in Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Ronald Colman - David Grant
- Jack Carson - Freddie Harper
- Cecilia Loftus - Mrs. Sylvester
- Hugh O'Connell - Niagara Clerk
- Leon Belasco - Nick I
- Lucille Gleason - Ethel's Mother
- Dorothy Adams - Maid in Apartment
- Nora Cecil - Clubwoman
- Charles Halton - Newspaperman
- Allen Wood - Bellboy
- George Watts - Plainclothesman
- Dorothy Vernon - Woman on Bus
- Alex Melesh - Art Salesman
- Dick Hogan - Bellboy
- Tommy Mack - Joseph
- Benny Rubin - Spieler Number 1
- Lloyd Ingraham - Chamber of Commerce Member
- Billy Gilbert - Charles
- Edgar Dearing - Desk Sergeant
- Harlan Briggs - Mayor
- Ginger Rogers - Jean Newton
- Spring Byington - Aunt Lucy
- Harry Davenport - Judge
- Brandon Tynan - Mr. Sylvester
- Walter Kingsford - Wendell
- Helen Lynd - Ethel
- William Benedict - Bellboy
- Robert Dudley - Bailiff
- Otto Hoffman - Clerk
- Gayne Whitman - Announcer
- Max Wagner - Waiter
- Grady Sutton - Reporter
- Olin Howland - Tourist
- Jane Patten - Bride
- Tom Dugan - Spieler
- Frank Mills - Bus Driver
- Al Hill - Motor Cop
- Fern Emmett - Hotel Maid
- Eddie Conrad - Nick II
- Murray Alper - Bellboy
- Director(s):
- Lewis Milestone
- Writer(s):
- John van Druten, Allan G. Scott
- Producer(s):
- George Haight
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