Sunbonnet Sue
Cast & Crew
Ralph Murphy
Gale Storm
Phil Regan
George Cleveland
Alan Mowbray
Minna Gombell
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Sue Casey is a singer at her father's saloon in the Bowery section of New York City in the 1890s. Julia Ross, her social-climbing aunt, fears that her standing will be ruined if her friends learn about her humble family backround as a result of Sue's performing. Matters escalate when Julia, her friend Jonathan and her butler Masters, are thrown out of Casey's saloon by Flaherty, Casey's right-hand man, after the three create a disturbance while trying to force Sue to leave the Bowery. Meanwhile, as local election day approaches, the district becomes politically divided. Casey and the Irish immigrants back Danny Dooley, and the Italian immigrants back Pete Milano, while Julia throws her support to the corrupt Tammany Hall candidate, Joe Feeney, who wins the election. The political bosses then revoke Casey's liquor license and close the saloon down. Father Hurley, the local Catholic priest, informs Sue that her father's saloon will be allowed to reopen if she agrees to leave the Bowery and move in with Julia at her Fifth Avenue home. Sue agrees, and Julia holds a coming-out party for her niece, which turns into a brawl when Casey and Danny crash the party and attempt to take Sue back to the Bowery. Julia is convinced that her social standing has been destroyed beyond repair after Governor Fitzgerald and his wife arrive in the midst of the fight, only to learn that Mrs. Fitzgerald is an old friend of Casey's and also grew up in the Bowery. After Sue is then allowed to return home, Casey's license is reinstated, and Julia retains her social standing.
Director
Ralph Murphy
Cast
Gale Storm
Phil Regan
George Cleveland
Alan Mowbray
Minna Gombell
Edna M. Holland
Raymond Hatton
Gerald Oliver Smith
Charles D. Brown
Charles Judels
Billy Green
Jerry Franks Jr.
Michael Raffetto
Crew
James W. Blake
Harry Bourne
Lorraine Bourne
Jack Boyle
Trem Carr
Richard A. Carroll
Mario Castegnaro
Will D. Cobb
Richard Currier
Eddie Davis
Scott R. Dunlap
Gus Edwards
Fritzi Ehrens
John H. Flynn
Percy Gaunt
Steve Graham
Ed Haley
Ernest R. Hickson
Ira Hoke
Charles H. Hoyt
Edward Kay
Robert A. Keiser
James Kendis
Lou Klein
Tom Lambert
Charles B. Lawlor
C. Harold Lewis
Ed Madden
William Margulies
Ray Mercer
Dave Milton
Ralph Murphy
Ralph Murphy
Harry Neumann
Jack Noyes
Robert Ray
Carson Robison
Bradford Ropes
Paul Gerard Smith
William Strohbach
Sidney Sutherland
Charles Thompson
William H. Wilmarth
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Score
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
According to a October 1944 Hollywood Reporter news item, actress Elyse Knox was originally cast in the lead role of this film. Edward J. Kay's music score was nominated for an Academy Award in 1944, but lost to Georgie Stoll's work on the M-G-M film Anchors Aweigh (see entry above).