| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Actress in a Leading Role May Robson |
| Best Director Frank Capra | |||
| Best Picture (Columbia). | |||
| Best Writing, Adaptation Robert Riskin | |||
Columbia Pictures
Directed by Frank Capra
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Capra and Riskin team up to adapt a Damon Runyan story about "Apple Annie", an elderly alcoholic living on the streets of New York by selling apples. One of her best customers is a wealthy mobster named "Dave the Dude", who won't finish a new deal to buy some horses without one of her lucky apples. Well, ole Annie has been fooling her daughter about her real identity, and when she shows up with her new fiance and his wealthy father Annie appeals to Dave for help. This all leads to scenes of mobsters and showgirls attempting to act "high society" to save Apple Annie and her daughter from embarrassment. It seemed to me a rather flimsy excuse for so much effort. In fact, the truth about her mother is never revealed to the daughter, who in the closing scene is departing for Europe by ship blissfully unaware of her mother's plight.
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