The Big Street

Gloria (Lucille Ball, singing dubbed) backstage with helper Ruby (Louise Beavers) and fired waiter Pinks (Henry Fonda) whom she owes a favor, delivered by her head waiter (Hans Conreid), early in Damon Runyon's The Big Street, 1942.

Opening scene, Ray Collins ("Professor B") and Sam Levene ("Horsethief") tangle like the Damon Runyon characters they are, interrupted by Henry Fonda (Little Pinks) because Nicely Nicely (Eugene Pallette) is sick, from The Big Street, 1942.

Pinks (Henry Fonda) aiming to fulfill the wish of convalescing showgirl Gloria (Lucille Ball) to be taken to Florida, attempts to leave Manhattan via the Holland Tunnel, in The Big Street, 1942, produced by Damon Runyon from his original story.

Lucille Ball plays a selfish showgirl who ignores Henry Fonda's lovestruck waiter until she is injured in The Big Street, 1942, produced by Damon Runyon from his short story.