Directed by:
Elliott NugentScreenplay:
Virginia Van UppCinematography:
Leo ToverComposer:
Victor YoungCast:
Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Gladys George, Virginia Field, Cecil Kellaway, William Bendix, Sig Arno, May Beatty, Charles Irwin, Yvonne De Carlo (more)Plots(1)
Overloaded with unreleased films in 1942 and 1943, Paramount Pictures cleaned house by diverting several pictures to United Artists. One such effort was The Crystal Ball, wherein beauty contest loser Toni Gerard (Paulette Goddard) takes a job as a sideshow fortune teller. Subbing for the ailing head (Gladys George) of a fake medium racket, Toni whimsically advises attorney Brad Cavanaugh (Ray Milland) to purchase some property that is coveted by the government. Cavanaugh follows her advice, nearly ruining himself in the process. All turns out okay in the end, but there's a last-minute entanglement when several of Toni's disgruntled clients converge upon her all at once. Performances by such surehanded supporting players as William Bendix, Cecil Kellaway, Mary Field, Ernest Truex, Iris Adrian, Nestor Paiva and Mabel Paige (in her film debut). (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ray Milland
UK
Best movies:
Dial M for Murder (1954)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Love Story (1970)
Paulette Goddard
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
Chaplin (1992) - a.f.
Gladys George
USA
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Detective Story (1951)
Virginia Field
UK
Best movies:
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
Cecil Kellaway
South Africa
Best movies:
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
William Bendix
USA
Best movies:
Detective Story (1951)
Lifeboat (1944)
Woman of the Year (1942)
Sig Arno
Best movies:
Fair People (1930)
The Great Dictator (1940)
It Started with Eve (1941)
May Beatty
New Zealand
Best movies:
Union Pacific (1939)
Show Boat (1936)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Charles Irwin
Ireland
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Yvonne De Carlo
Canada
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Roots (1977) (series)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Lorraine Miller
USA
Best movies:
The Big Sleep (1946)
Ball of Fire (1941)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
Hillary Brooke
USA
Best movies:
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
William H. O'Brien
Australia
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Mysterious Lady (1928)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Bert Stevens
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Paul Bryar
USA
Best movies:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Vertigo (1958)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Sam Harris
Australia
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Bobby Barber
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Tom Dugan
Ireland
Best movies:
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
Chuck Hamilton
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Iris Adrian
USA
Best movies:
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Our Relations (1936)
Mighty Joe Young (1949)