Pal Joey (film)
Pal Joey is a 1957 American Technicolor musical film, loosely adapted from the musical play of the same name, and starring Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak. Jo Ann Greer sang for Hayworth, as she had done previously in Affair in Trinidad and Miss Sadie Thompson. Kim Novaks singing voice was dubbed by Trudy Erwin. George Sidney directed, with the choreography managed by Hermes Pan. Nelson Riddle handled the musical arrangements for the Rodgers and Hart standards The Lady is a Tramp, I Didnt Know What Time It Was, I Could Write a Book and Theres A Small Hotel.
The setting is San Francisco Joey Evans Frank Sinatra is a secondrate singer, a heel known for his womanizing ways calling women mice, but charming and funny. When Joey meets Linda English Kim Novak, a naive chorus girl, he has stirrings of real feelings. However, that does not stop him from romancing a former flame and exstripper Joey says, She used to be Vera...with the Vanishing Veils, now society matron Vera PrenticeSimpson Rita Hayworth, a wealthy, willful, and lonely widow, in order to convince her to finance his dream, Chez Joey, a night club of his own.Soon Joey is involved with Vera, each using the other for hisher own somewhat selfish purposes. But Joeys feelings for Linda are growing. Ultimately, Vera jealously demands that Joey fire Linda. When Joey refuses Nobody owns Joey but Joey, Vera closes down Chez Joey. Linda visits Vera and agrees to quit in an attempt to keep the club open. Vera then agrees to open the club, and even offers to marry Joey, but Joey rejects Vera. As Joey is leaving for Sacramento, Linda runs after him, offering to go wherever he is headed. After halfhearted refusals, Joey gives in and they walk away together, united. ........
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