Princess O'Hara
Cast & Crew
David Burton
Jean Parker
Chester Morris
Leon Errol
Henry Armetta
Verna Hillie
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
New Yorker Vic Toledo, the owner of the Shim Sham club, a racehorse named Hozanna and a taxicab company, tries to help take care of Kitty "Princess" O'Hara after her father King is accidentally killed when he is caught in the midst of a cab war between Vic and the United Cab Co. Kitty quits her job as a performer at Vic's club and refuses his help, because she believes him to be responsible for her father's death. Kitty accepts a brand new horse-drawn carriage to continue her father's business, which is purportedly provided by an insurance company. When her horse, Goldberg, catches pneumonia, Vic orders his right-hand man, Louie "Last Call" Schulz, to find a horse for her. Louie and mug Montague "Fingers" Spackwort go to a horseshow at Madison Square Garden where they find cowboy Laramie Pink, who agrees to steal a horse for them from the Whitley stables. They steal Gallant Godfrey, who is owned by Vic's girl friend, wealthy socialite Alberta Whitley, based on the assumption that this will protect Vic's bets. They give the horse to Kitty through veterinarian Henry Spidoni, but Kitty is arrested for horse stealing when police discover that her horse is Gallant Godfrey. Vic believes that Kitty stole the horse to avenge her father's death, but when she convinces him that she had nothing to do with the theft, he promises to ask Alberta to drop the charges, as her horse has been returned. Alberta, however, thinks Vic stole her horse and has been using her all along, so she refuses his request. At a private hearing, Kitty is remanded into Miss Van Courtland's custody after Alberta agrees that if her horse wins an upcoming race, she will drop all charges because the horse will have suffered no harm. Vic plans to fix the race so that Hozanna will lose, but the police are guarding the horse and its jockey, and Louie reminds him that the mob has bet heavily on his horse. Hozanna wins the race, but Vic informs Alberta that he signed his horse over to her the night before, and that as she is the owner of the horse that won, she is forced to drop all charges against Kitty. Kitty's faith in Vic is thus renewed.
Director
David Burton
Cast
Jean Parker
Chester Morris
Leon Errol
Henry Armetta
Verna Hillie
Vince Barnett
Ralph Remley
Tom Dugan
Jimmy Fay
Clara Blandick
Dorothy Gray
Anne Howard
Clifford Jones
Pepi Sinoff
Ed Brady
Goldberg
Anne Darling
Douglas Fowley
Robert E. O'connor
James Burke
Charles C. Wilson
George Irving
Ed Stanley
Charles Lane
George Davis
Ben F. Hendricks
Clyde Dilson
Al Hill
Bob Callahan
Frank Moran
Gertrude Simpson
Marie Werner
Richard Elliott
Florence Dudley
Celia Ryland
Arthur S. Byron
Bud Jamison
David Thursby
Constance Kent
Alphonse Martell
William Arnold
Tammany Young
Pat O'malley
James Farley
Spec O'donnell
Lloyd Whitlock
Mathew Betz
Eddie Kane
Lee Phelps
Max Davidson
Gunnis Davis
J. M. Mcbride
Johnstone White
Ethan Laidlaw
Eddie Baker
Jay Wilsey
Floyd Criswell
Ed Dearing
Frank Rice
Eddie Phillips
Onest Conley
Charles Murphy
Al Ferguson
Arnold Gray
Harold A. Miller
Jack Mack
Patricia Chapman
Maude Truax
Henry Rocquemore
Russ Clark
Tom Mcguire
Edith Craig
Crew
Albert Akst
Norbert Brodine
Harry Clork
Albert S. D'agostino
Nat Ferber
John P. Fulton
Myrtle Gibsone
Georgie Hale
Phil Karlstein
Gilbert Kurland
Carl Laemmle
Carl Laemmle
Doris Malloy
Arthur Morton
Arthur Morton
Vic Noerdlinger
Maurice Pivar
W. J. Reiter
Robert C. Rothafel
Leonard Spigelgass
Barry Trivers
Mary West
Film Details
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Trivia
Notes
The film's opening title reads "Carl Laemmle presents Jean Parker and Chester Morris in Damon Runyon's Princess O'Hara." The plot summary and screen credits are based on a studio screen continuity. According to a news item in Daily Variety, Mary Wallace was replaced by Ann Darling due to illness. Daily Variety also noted that assistant director William Reiter resigned during production due to his wife's serious illness. The Variety review speculated that the racetrack scenes May have been filmed at Santa Anita racetracks in CA. It Ain't Hay, based on the same source, was released by Universal in 1943 and starred Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
