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Lady for a Day is a 1933
1933 in film

Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
 film which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
. It was written by Robert Riskin
Robert Riskin

Robert Riskin was an United States screenwriter and playwright, best known for his collaborations with director-producer Frank Capra.Riskin began his career as a playwright, writing for many local New York City playhouses....
, based on the Damon Runyon
Damon Runyon

Damon Runyon was a newspaperman and writer.He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition in the United States era....
 story Madame la Gimp. The film was directed by Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
.

The movie was remade (again directed by Frank Capra) as Pocketful of Miracles
Pocketful of Miracles

Pocketful of Miracles is a 1961 in film comedy film. The screenplay was based on a story by Damon Runyon called "Madame La Gimp" and an earlier screenplay by Frank Capra and Robert Riskin for Capra's Lady for a Day ....
 in 1961
1961 in film

The year 1961 in film involved some significant events....
, starring Bette Davis
Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
 and Glenn Ford
Glenn Ford

Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford was a Canada-born United States actor from Classical Hollywood cinema's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades....
.

Plot
Apple Annie (May Robson) is a street peddler who had sent away her daughter as a young child to be raised in Europe, letting her believe that Annie was a member of New York high society.






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Lady for a Day is a 1933
1933 in film

Events*British Film Institute founded.*March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey....
 film which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
. It was written by Robert Riskin
Robert Riskin

Robert Riskin was an United States screenwriter and playwright, best known for his collaborations with director-producer Frank Capra.Riskin began his career as a playwright, writing for many local New York City playhouses....
, based on the Damon Runyon
Damon Runyon

Damon Runyon was a newspaperman and writer.He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition in the United States era....
 story Madame la Gimp. The film was directed by Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
.

The movie was remade (again directed by Frank Capra) as Pocketful of Miracles
Pocketful of Miracles

Pocketful of Miracles is a 1961 in film comedy film. The screenplay was based on a story by Damon Runyon called "Madame La Gimp" and an earlier screenplay by Frank Capra and Robert Riskin for Capra's Lady for a Day ....
 in 1961
1961 in film

The year 1961 in film involved some significant events....
, starring Bette Davis
Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
 and Glenn Ford
Glenn Ford

Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford was a Canada-born United States actor from Classical Hollywood cinema's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades....
.

Plot


Apple Annie (May Robson) is a street peddler who had sent away her daughter as a young child to be raised in Europe, letting her believe that Annie was a member of New York high society. Now her grown-up daughter Louise (Jean Parker
Jean Parker

Jean Parker was an American movie actress.Born as Lois Mae Green in Deer Lodge, Montana, she appeared in 70 movies from 1932 through 1966....
) is engaged to marry Carlos Romero (Barry Norton), a Spanish
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
 aristocrat. They are coming for a visit and Annie must somehow maintain the masquerade or the fiancé's father, the Count (Walter Connolly
Walter Connolly

Walter Connolly was an American character actor who appeared in almost fifty films between and .Connolly was a successful stage actor who appeared in twenty-two Broadway theatre productions between 1916 and 1935, notably revivals of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya....
), will not give his blessing to the marriage. Dave the Dude (Warren William
Warren William

Warren William was a Broadway theatre and Hollywood actor, born the son of Freeman E. and Frances Krech, Warren William Krech in Aitkin, Minnesota....
), a superstitious gambler who considers her his good luck charm, is talked into providing a luxury apartment, clothes and a husband, 'Judge' Henry Blake (Guy Kibbee
Guy Kibbee

Guy Kibbee was an United States stage and film actor....
) (a pool hall hustler), to deceive her guests.

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