Sorrowful Jones (1949)

Bob Hope is a bookie who is saddled with taking care of a little girl (Mary Jane Saunders, who is everything this kind of part requires) after her father stumbles upon a scheme to fix a horse race. Lucille Ball plays the love interest, William Demarest the best friend. A remake of a Shirley Temple film, based on a Damon Runyon story, the latter aspect was played up in the adverting. Runyon having then semi recently passed. This film is adequate. **