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The Big Street is a 1942 American drama film starring Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball, based on the 1940 short story "Little Pinks" by Damon Runyon, who also produced it. It was directed by Irving Reis from a screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass.
The Big Street: Directed by Irving Reis. With Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton MacLane, Eugene Pallette. A busboy in unrequited love with a nightclub performer grows closer to her after she is paralyzed in an attack by her gangster boyfriend.
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Synopsis. On the corner of Broadway and 50th Street in New York City, an eating contest is about to begin, pitting Nicely Nicely Johnson against Joe Duffle, when Nicely Nicely comes down with an upset stomach. Racketeer and nightclub owner Case Ables has bet $20,000 on Nicely Nicely, and to save Ables' investment, busboy Augustus Pinkerton II ...
Runyonesque busboy Little Pinks (Henry Fonda) hitchhikes to Florida with a gangster's (Barton MacLane) ex-moll (Lucille Ball) in a wheelchair.
- Comedy, Drama
In New York City, a busboy named Augustus Pinkerton Jr. - Little Pinks to his friends - has been in unrequited love with nightclub performer Gloria Lyons ever since he first saw her sing and dance when they worked in the same club. She, however, doesn't even notice him in her self-absorbed world.
The Big Street. A broadway nightclub waiter falls in love with a crippled singer who selfishly accepts his help without loving him in return. 311 IMDb 6.4 1 h 28 min 1942. X-Ray 13+. Comedy · Drama · Romance. Available to rent or buy. Rent. SD $3.59. Buy. SD $9.99.
Welcome to Big Street! Where good-hearted busboy Pinks, played by Henry Fonda is willing to do practically anything and everything for the outrageously witchy nightclub singer played by Lucille Ball.
Story. Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
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Jun 19, 2007 · With a curious mix of comedy and melodrama, The Big Street features Lucille Ball in one of the best roles of her big-screen career. Playing up her image as a brassy gal who knows what she wants, Lucy's got a hard shell and a soft heart as Gloria Lyons, a self-centered nightclub singer who looks down upon the "little people" who enthusiastically ...
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