Pocketful of Miracles

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces Pocketful Of Miracles, 1961.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Pocketful Of Miracles, 1961.

Dave Karger introduces Pocketful Of Miracles, 1962.

Complex opening sequence from Frank Capra's last feature, Pocketful of Miracles, 1961, introducing Bette Davis as "Apple Annie," now a period piece, set in 1930 New York, but also a remake of Capra's own Lady For A Day, 1933, both based on a Damon Runyon story.

Peter Falk (as "Joy Boy") is bantering with Junior (Mickey Shaughnessy) as Annie (Bette Davis) awaits the entrance of Dave the Dude (Glenn Ford), then Hope Lange, in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles 1961, from a Damon Runyon story.

Apple Annie (Bette Davis) at the Hotel Marberry where she's trying to maintain an address she's been using to reassure her daughter living abroad, in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles, 1961, Gavin Gordon the hotel manager, from a Damon Runyon story.

Bette Davis plays Apple Annie in Frank Capra's last movie, Pocketful Of Miracles (1961).