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Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949)
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
“She was never so insulted in all her life...and it was wonderful!”
Comedy · 1h 27m
A bookie uses a phony real estate business as a front for his betting parlor. To further keep up the sham, he hires dim-witted Ellen Grant as his secretary figuring she won't suspect any criminal goings-on. When Ellen learns of some friends who are about to lose their homes, she unwittingly drafts her boss into developing a new low-cost housing development.
Cast
Lucille Ball
Ellen Grant
William Holden
Dick Richmond
Janis Carter
Peggy Donato
James Gleason
Timothy Gleason
Gloria Henry
Helen White
Frank McHugh
Kilcoyne
George Cleveland
Judge Grant
Stephen Dunne
Ralph Winton
Wanda Perry
Ruth (uncredited)
Roy Roberts
Roberts - Construction Foreman (uncredited)
Will Wright
Roscoe Johnson (uncredited)
Eddie Acuff
Bus Driver (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Lloyd Bacon
- Screenplay
- Nat Perrin, Frank Tashlin, Devery Freeman
- Director of Photography
- Charles Lawton Jr.
- Original Music Composer
- Heinz Roemheld
- Editor
- Jerome Thoms
- Producer
- S. Sylvan Simon
Details
- Release date
- 1949-10-20
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Columbia Pictures