Lillian Russell
The life and loves of the woman whose beauty had the world and its famous men at her feet!
1940 · 2h 7m · APPROVED
Drama, Music
Directed by
Irving Cummings
Overview
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Director and cast
- Irving Cummings Director
- Alice Faye as Lillian Russell
- Don Ameche as Edward Solomon
- Henry Fonda as Alexander Moore
- Edward Arnold as Diamond Jim Brady
- Warren William as Jesse Lewisohn
- Leo Carrillo as Tony Pastor
- Helen Westley as Grandma Leonard
- Nigel Bruce as William Gilbert
- Lynn Bari as Edna McCauley
- Claud Allister as Arthur Sullivan
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