Little Miss Marker
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
- genus: Comedy, Family
- Studio: B.P. Schulberg Productions, Paramount Pictures
- keyword: prayer, motherly love, little girl, orphan, bookie, mother figure, bedtime story, father figure, betting, gambling racket, abandoned child, collateral, blood donor, race horse, bookies
- cast: Shirley Temple, Adolphe Menjou, Charles Bickford, Dorothy Dell, Warren Hymer, Lynne Overman
