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Movie profile

Lillian Russell

The life and loves of the woman whose beauty had the world and its famous men at her feet!

6.6/ 1019402h 7mNR

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Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Directed by Irving Cummings

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Behind the frames

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Alice Faye

Alice Faye

Lillian Russell

Don Ameche

Don Ameche

Edward Solomon

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

Alexander Moore

Edward Arnold

Edward Arnold

Diamond Jim Brady

Warren William

Warren William

Jesse Lewisohn

Leo Carrillo

Leo Carrillo

Tony Pastor

Helen Westley

Helen Westley

Grandma Leonard

Nigel Bruce

Nigel Bruce

William Gilbert