Pocketful of Miracles 1961
A streetwise New York gangster and his scheming girlfriend hatch a plan to transform the down‑and‑out street peddler Apple Annie into a polished society lady after discovering that her daughter is about to wed royalty. Their comic efforts to teach her manners and stage a high‑society debut drive the film’s lively, romantic misadventures.
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Thomas Mitchell
Judge Henry G. Blake
Bette Davis
Apple Annie
Dub Taylor
Man (uncredited)
Jack Elam
Cheesecake
Willis Bouchey
Newspaper Editor
Peter Falk
Joy Boy
Edward Everett Horton
Hudgins
George E. Stone
Shimkey (uncredited)
John Litel
Police Inspector McCrary
Ellen Corby
Soho Sal
Jack Gordon
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Fritz Feld
Pierre
Tom Fadden
Herbie (uncredited)
Frank Ferguson
Newspaper Editor
Mike Mazurki
Big Mike
Mickey Shaughnessy
Junior
Arthur O'Connell
Count Alfonso Romero
Betty Bronson
Mayor's Wife (uncredited)
Kate Murtagh
Masseuse (uncredited)
Vito Scotti
Priest (uncredited)
Glenn Ford
Dave 'The Dude' Conway
Kelly Thordsen
The Weasel (uncredited)
George Calliga
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Sheldon Leonard
Steve Darcey
Barton MacLane
Police Commissioner
Jerome Cowan
Mayor
Hope Lange
Elizabeth 'Queenie' Martin
Grace Lee Whitney
Queenie's Broad (uncredited)
Hayden Rorke
Police Captain Moore
Don Ames
Man at Dock (uncredited)
David Brian
Governor
Peter Ford
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Ralph Brooks
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Gavin Gordon
Mr. Cole
Benjie Bancroft
Police Officer (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Ann-Margret
Louise
Michael Ross
Detective (uncredited)
Jacqueline deWit
Louise (Governor's Wife) (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Lloyd (uncredited)
Jack Shea
Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
John Lawrence
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Peter Hansen
Governor's Aide (uncredited)
Peter Mann
Carlos Romero
Angelo Rossitto
Angie (uncredited)
Leoda Richards
Woman Sitting Next to Mayor in Car (uncredited)
Paul Micale
Man (uncredited)
Arthur Tovey
Passerby with Umbrella (uncredited)
Jim Michael
Hood (uncredited)
James Griffith
Detective Briscoe (uncredited)
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
Reception Guest (uncredited)
James J. Casino
Man at Dock (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
Club Patron (uncredited)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Knuckles (uncredited)
Joe Evans
Attendant (uncredited)
Jay Novello
Cortego
Benny Rubin
Flyaway
Doodles Weaver
Pool Player
Kenner G. Kemp
Man on Dock / Reception Guest (uncredited)
Billy Nelson
Hood (uncredited)
Scott Seaton
Club Patron (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Pedestrian Entering Club (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
Truck-Driving Hood (uncredited)
Chalky Williams
Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
Slop (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
Hood in Dock Brawl (uncredited)
Hal Taggart
Man Who Helps Annie (uncredited)
Eddie Foster
Man in Pool Hall (uncredited)
Herman Belmonte
Man on Dock (uncredited)
Paul Cristo
Hotel Guest (uncredited)
Alphonso DuBois
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
George Nardelli
Club Patron (uncredited)
Bert Stevens
Man on Dock (uncredited)
Richard Karlan
Detective (uncredited)
Mike Mahoney
Man Who Helps Annie (uncredited)
William Meader
Passerby (uncredited)
Ralph Montgomery
Pool Hall Patron with Pipe (uncredited)
Paul E. Burns
Mallethead (uncredited)
Phil Bloom
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Nina Borget
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Dick Wessel
Governor of Florida (uncredited)
Bert Madrid
Crewman (uncredited)
Joe Gray
Pool Player (uncredited)
Charles Cirillo
Man at Dock (uncredited)
Paul Newlan
Hood (uncredited)
Marc Cavell
Reporter at Dock (uncredited)
Fred Rapport
Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
Chester Jones
Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
Josip Elic
Darcey's Henchman (uncredited)
Mushy Callahan
Man at Dock (uncredited)
Sailor Vincent
Pool Hall Patron (uncredited)
Romo Vincent
Brisbane (Kidnapped Reporter) (uncredited)
Kermit Maynard
Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
Bing Conley
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Clark Ross
Man on Dock (uncredited)
Willie Bloom
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Phil Schumacher
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Joseph Glick
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Albert Cavens
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Harry Swoger
Darcey's Henchman (uncredited)
Robert Locke Lorraine
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Paul Ravel
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Abdullah Abbas
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Edgar Stehli
Gloomy (uncredited)
Sam Bagley
Man on Dock (uncredited)
Charles Perry
Man at Dock (uncredited)
Stephen Soldi
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Amanda Randolph
Annie's Neighbor (uncredited)
Daniel Nunez
Reception Guest (uncredited)
Joe McTurk
Powder (uncredited)
Michael Cirillo
Pedestrian (uncredited)
Norman Papson
Hairdresser (uncredited)
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Full Plot Summary and Ending Explained for Pocketful of Miracles
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In the film Pocketful of Miracles, Dave the Dude, a highly successful New York City gangster, clings to a superstition: the apples he buys from the alcoholic street peddler Apple Annie bring him luck. Annie assures him that the latest purchase is especially lucky. When he crosses paths with Elizabeth “Queenie” Martin, Hope Lange — the daughter of a friend and a speakeasy owner recently murdered for owing money to the wrong people — he learns she is eager to change her fortunes. Queenie offers to pay him $5 a week from her cashier’s salary toward the $20,000 he is owed, but Dave, trusting Annie’s claim, decides to turn Queenie into a nightclub star. To the astonishment of his right-hand man, Joy Boy, he succeeds, and Queenie is able to pay off all her father’s creditors after two years, just as Prohibition ends.
Dave has an important meeting with a very powerful underworld boss from Chicago, Steve Darcey aka “Mr. Big.” Darcey is weighing whether to allow Dave to control the New York territory in exchange for $50,000 “as a token of good faith.” Dave counters by demanding $100,000 “as a token of your good faith.”
Meanwhile, Annie has an illegitimate daughter named Louise, Ann-Margret, whom she sent to Europe as a baby. In her letters to Louise, she masquerades as wealthy socialite Mrs. E. Worthington Manville, sending Louise money she gets from the Dude and various “godparents.” Louise, now grown up, is bringing her Spanish fiancé Carlos and his father, Count Alfonso Romero, to meet her. Annie has been pretending she resides in a luxurious hotel (writing her letters on stolen hotel stationery) and has Louise’s letters mailed there, intercepted for her by an employee. However, the employee is fired when this is found out.
Dave’s girlfriend Queenie insists he help Annie continue her charade. Dave reluctantly goes along, worried that his luck would run out otherwise. Queenie has the bedraggled Annie made up to look like a sophisticated socialite, while Dave borrows an out-of-town friend’s luxurious penthouse suite, complete with Hudgins the butler, and arranges for cultured pool hustler “Judge” Henry G. Blake to pose as Annie’s husband.
When Dave keeps postponing finalizing the deal with Mr. Big to help Annie, Joy Boy becomes increasingly exasperated and frightened. Dave manages to engineer a lavish reception, with Jerome Cowan as the Mayor and David Brian as the Governor, as guests, the night before Louise and her impressed future husband and father-in-law sail back to Europe, none the wiser about her mother’s real identity. Mr. Big agrees to the Dude’s terms, but the Dude decides to marry Queenie and settle down.
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