A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.

Bob Hope
as Humphrey "Sorrowful" Jones

Lucille Ball
as Gladys O'Neill

William Demarest
as Regret

Bruce Cabot
as Big Steve Holloway

Thomas Gomez
as Reardon

Tom Pedi
as Once Over Sam

Paul Lees
as Orville Smith

Houseley Stevenson
as Doc Chesley

Ben Welden
as Big Steve's Bodyguard

Emmett Vogan
as Psychiatrist
John Chard
Rock-a-bye Baby at Pimlico. Damon Runyon's Little Miss Marker had already been filmed in 1934 as a Shirley Temple starrer, this remake changes the title and brings in the star power of Bob Hope and Lucille Ball, with great results. Story has Hope as sly bookie Sorrowful Jones, who after accept...