03 Aug 2005
The Wendell Baker Story
Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.
Married Bachelor
SHE - wanted to settle down and leave her hotel by the front door, instead of sneaking down a fire escape!
A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
Top Billed Cast
Robert Young Randolph Haven
Ruth Hussey Norma Haven
Felix Bressart Professor Milic
Lee Bowman Eric Santley
Sheldon Leonard Johnny Brannigan
Sam Levene Cookie Farrar
Murray Alper Sleeper
Roy Gordon Hudkins
Connie Gilchrist Mother on Train (uncredited)
Johnny Mitchell Devlin (as Douglass Newland) (uncredited)
Charlotte Wynters Margaret John (uncredited)
Bess Flowers Sales Clerk at Lacey's Dept. Store (uncredited)
Hillary Brooke Hillary (uncredited)
Gladys Blake Marie (uncredited)
William Haade Marie's Husband (uncredited)
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