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Plot summary
Joey Evans is a womanizing nightclub singer. He romances the mayor's underage daughter and is run out of town, boarding a train to San Francisco. He meets his friend Ned Galvin, who leads the band at the Barbary Coast Club, and when the club's emcee does not appear, Joey fills in and Mike Miggins, the owner, hires him. That night Ned brings Joey and Linda English, a naïve chorus girl, to a children's charity event on Nob Hill.
Cast
- Hank Henryas Mike Miggins
- John Albanas Guest at Charity Ball (uncredited)
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pal Joey (1957)
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- Dorothy Kingsley, who wrote the script, said Pal Joey was meant to star Kirk Douglas with George Cukor directing. Harry Cohn's assistant Lilian Burns insisted only Frank Sinatra could play Joey, and she and Kingsley persuaded Cohn to cast Sinatra even though he and Sinatra were feuding.
- Frank Sinatra's earnings from Pal Joey paid for his new home in Palm Springs, and he was so delighted with the film that he also built a restaurant there dedicated to it, named Pal Joey's.
- Because Vera's burlesque number "Zip" needed an authentic drummer to mime the bumps and grinds, the extra seen playing the drums is swapped, in a jump cut, for professional session musician Jimmy Fernandes.
