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The Lady Pays Off
The Lady Pays Off

The Lady Pays Off (1951)

70% User Rating
1h 20min
Comedy
Romance

"The Most Beautiful I.O.U. a Gambler Ever Collected..."

The naive Evelyn Warren, elected school teacher of the year by Time Magazine, goes to Las Vegas, where she loses a lot of money. In order to pay her debts, casino manager Matt Braddock asks her to take care of his sad little daughter Diana.

Douglas SirkDirector

Cast

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Linda Darnell

Linda Darnell

Evelyn Walsh Warren

Stephen McNally

Stephen McNally

Matt Bradock

Gigi Perreau

Gigi Perreau

Diane Braddock

Virginia Field

Virginia Field

Kay Stoddard

Ann Codee

Ann Codee

Marie

Nestor Paiva

Nestor Paiva

Manuel

Katherine Warren

Katherine Warren

Bessie Howell

James Griffith

James Griffith

Ronald

John Doucette

John Doucette

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Lynne Hunter

Minnie

Billy Wayne

Billy Wayne

Croupier

William Newell

William Newell

Bartender (as Billy Newell)

Paul McVey

Paul McVey

Speaker

Tris Coffin

Tris Coffin

Carl

Judd Holdren

Judd Holdren

Face

Nolan Leary

Nolan Leary

Doctor

Ric Roman

Ric Roman

Ricky

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CinemaSerf
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Rating 60%

September 7, 2022

Linda Darnell is "Evelyn", the newly awarded "Teacher of the Year" but a woman who isn't actually that mad keen on children (a gal after my own heart). Anyway, after her award luncheon, she and a colleague - who has a "system" - head to a local casino where she manages, very quickly, to end up $7,000 in the hole. Taken to the owner, she has no way of paying back this mammoth sum so "Matt" (Stephen McNally) presents her with a choice. Either he tells the media all about her gambling habit or she take up residence in his beachside home and try to bring his young daughter "Diana" (Gigi Perreau) out of her shell. Not very impressed with either option, she elects the latter and well, you can guess the rest. Indeed, it does have shades of "Jane Eyre" to it. This is a straightforward comedy drama with engaging, if unremarkable, performances from the two stars. There is enough on-screen chemistry to keep it going for eighty minutes with Perreau quite charming as the increasingly savvy and gently manipulative youngster. If hardly an original scenario, it's still quite an uplifting tale and it moves along nicely with some lovely ocean photography and it passes the time effortlessly enough.

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