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Four Jacks and a Jill is a 1942 musical comedy film starring Ray Bolger, Anne Shirley, June Havoc and Desi Arnaz. It lost $113,000.
Four Jacks and a Jill: Directed by Jack Hively. With Ray Bolger, Anne Shirley, June Havoc, Desi Arnaz. Four struggling musicians lose their vocalist at the insistence of her gangster boyfriend. They find a replacement in an innocent young woman being courted by a cabbie pretending to be a king.
- (225)
- Comedy, Music, Romance
- Jack Hively
- 1942-01-23
Synopsis. Band leader Nifty Sullivan meets Karinina "Nina" Novak when he pulls her from the path of an onrushing car. Nina is ungrateful, however, and accuses him of causing her to lose her ticket to a concert that night.
- Jack Hively, Dewey Starkey
- Ray Bolger
Balkan immigrant Nina Novak (Anne Shirley) talks her way into a job as the singer in a New York City jazz band led by Nifty Sullivan (Ray Bolger) after front woman Opal (June Havoc) quits to...
- Musical, Comedy
- Ray Bolger
- Jack Hively
Four Jacks and a Jill (1942) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Karanina “Nina” Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Aregal Cafe, with herself as the vocalist, by pretending she once knew the King or Aregal back in the old country.
Career. They originally formed in 1964 without a "Jill" under the name "The Nevadas". Subsequently, they became the first group in South Africa to wear their hair long and they changed their name to "The Zombies" (different from the well-known British group ).
