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)
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Wilbur Mack
USA
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James Conaty
USA
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Nestor Paiva
USA
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Ernest Truex
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Bert Moorhouse
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Mary Field
USA
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Edmund Mortimer
USA
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Donald Douglas
UK
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Babe London
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John Harmon
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Fay Helm
USA
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Eric Alden
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Sayre Dearing
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Maude Eburne
Canada
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George Lessey
USA
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Reginald Sheffield
UK
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Mabel Paige
USA
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Regina Wallace
USA
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