Comedy Family
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
Directed by
Alexander Hall
Shirley Temple
Marthy Jane aka 'Marky'
Adolphe Menjou
Sorrowful Jones
Charles Bickford
Big Steve Halloway
Ernie Adams
Bettor (uncredited)
Sam Hardy
Bennie the Gouge
Warren Hymer
Sore Toe
Willie Best
Dizzy Memphis (uncredited)
Frank Conroy
Dr. Ingalls
James Burke
Detective Reardon (uncredited)
Garry Owen
Grinder (uncredited)
Lynne Overman
Regret
Edward Earle
Marky's Father (uncredited)
Crauford Kent
Doctor (uncredited)
John Kelly
Canvas Back
John Sheehan
Sun Rise
Frank McGlynn Sr.
Doc Chesley
Tammany Young
Bugs (uncredited)
Dorothy Dell
Bangles Carson
Mildred Gover
Bangles' Maid Sarah (uncredited)
Huey White
Eddie (uncredited)
Veda Buckland
Nurse (uncredited)
Pauline Wagner
Nurse (uncredited)

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