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The Joker Is Wild (1957)

Directed by Charles Vidor

Musical

Overview

Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker. A broken alcoholic, Joe is brought back from the abyss by his faithful piano player, Austin Mack, who helps turn the former singer into a successful stand-up comedian. But Joe’s demons plague his romantic life even as he reaches new heights of success.

Length 126 minutes

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Frank Sinatra | Mitzi Gaynor | Jeanne Crain | Eddie Albert | Beverly Garland | Jackie Coogan | Barry Kelley | Ted de Corsia | Leonard Graves | Valerie Allen | Hank Henry | Sophie Tucker | Eric Alden | Jerry Antes | Bill Baldwin | Bobby Barber | Don Beddoe | Russ Bender | John Benson | Billie Bird | Jan Bradley | Judith Bradshaw | Wally Brown | Paul Bryar | Benny Burt | Florine Carlan | Fred Catania . | James Cavanaugh | Edith Clair | Audrey Conti | Jimmy Cross | Jann Darlyn | Joseph Donte | Phyllis Douglas | Heidi Duval | Dick Elliott | Shirley Falls | Franklyn Farnum | Darlene Fields | Kathleen Gallant | Paul Gary | H.W. Gim | Mary Ellen Gleason | Regina Gleason | Joe Gray | Reita Green | Donna Jo Gribble | Kit Guard | John Harding | Maurice Hart | Ed Haskett | Len Hendry | Bill Hickman | Paula Hill | Harold Huber | Edward Ingram | Dorothy Johnson | Lorna Jordon | Howard Joslin | Kenner G. Kemp | Jack Kenney | Walter Woolf King | Richard Kipling | Lucy Knoch | Joseph La Cava | Estelle Lawrence | Ned Le Fevre | Joanna Lee | Carl M. Leviness | Artie Lewis | Audrey Lowell | Mike Mahoney | Helene Marshall | Leon Martin | Thomas Martin | Oliver McGowan | Dennis McMullen | Ron McNeil | William Meader | Sid Melton | Paul Millard | Harold Miller | Frank Mills | Ralph Montgomery | Pat Moran | Sol Murgi | Forbes Murray | William H. O'Brien | George Offerman Jr. | Alan Paige | Murray Pollack | William Pullen | Mabel Rea | Edna Ryan | Paul Salata | Cosmo Sardo | Jeffrey Sayre | Jerry Sheldon | Billy Snyder | Ann Stebbins | Jack Stoney | Robert Strong | Brick Sullivan | Elliott Sullivan | Kay Tapscott | Harriette Tarler | June Tolley | Mary Treen | Ned Wever | Dave White | Eric Wilton

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