Lemon Drop Kid, The (1951) - (Movie Clip) Friends At The Ritz

Name: Lemon Drop Kid, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Friends At The Ritz
Uploaded: 2012-12-17T00:00:00-05:00
Duration: 3 min 59 s
Description: Still dressed for Florida and the racetrack, Bob Hope (title character) back in New York scrambling to pay back a gangster by Christmas, runs into old pal Nellie (Jane Darwell) with her landlord, early in the 1951 version of the Damon Runyon story, The Lemon Drop Kid.

Still dressed for Florida and the racetrack, Bob Hope (title character) back in New York scrambling to pay back a gangster by Christmas, runs into old pal Nellie (Jane Darwell) with her landlord, early in the 1951 version of the Damon Runyon story, The Lemon Drop Kid.

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