

Lillian Russell
May 24, 1940•2h 7m•★ 6.7
DramaMusic
“The life and loves of the woman whose beauty had the world and its famous men at her feet!”
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Director
Irving CummingsWriters
Cast

Alice Faye
Lillian Russell

Don Ameche
Edward Solomon

Henry Fonda
Alexander Moore

Edward Arnold
Diamond Jim Brady

Warren William
Jesse Lewisohn

Leo Carrillo
Tony Pastor

Helen Westley
Grandma Leonard

Nigel Bruce
William Gilbert

Lynn Bari
Edna McCauley

Claud Allister
Arthur Sullivan

Una O'Connor
Marie

William B. Davidson
President Cleveland

Dorothy Peterson
Cynthia Leonard

Ernest Truex
Charles K. Leonard

Joe Weber
Himself

Lew Fields
Himself

Eddie Foy Jr.
Eddie Foy Sr.

Joseph Cawthorn
Leopold Damrosch
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Diane Fisher
Dorothy

Elyse Knox
Lillian Russell's Sister