bet at the bookie joint run by his competitor (the one who had him beaten up). From the winnings, Harris takes back the loan, and Johnny is left with $5000. Harris then makes two more bets for Johnny, both winners. Johnny now has won $60,000. Harris has only $40,000 on hand, so he tells Johnny he will send him the rest later. Johnny rushes off to share the good news with Emile, but Emile believes he took his advice about bank robbery. As it turns out, the bank's auditors have discovered there is $75,000 missing. Fearing he will be suspected of the crime, Johnny enlists Emile's help in hiding the money. When he tells Mibs about his windfall, she does not believe his story either. She finds $20,000, the remainder of what Harris owes Johnny, and goes to see Bob Pulsifer, Jr., the lazy, lecherous son of the bank's founder. She offers it to him on condition that he not inform the police about Johnny, but he telephones them anyway. Mibs insists on driving Johnny to Mexico, but they are caught. Much to the couple's surprise, the police know that Johnny won the money; instead, they arrest Mibs, as the auditors tracked the $75,000 to her. However, Johnny discovers by accident that Mibs's adding machine is malfunctioning: according to it, 2+2=5 and 3+3=7. Afterward, Mibs tells a man she thinks is a "reporter" about all the expensive gifts Johnny has given her, only to learn that the man actually works for the IRS. Cast Jane Russell as Mildred "Mibs" Goodhue Groucho Marx as Emile J. Keck Frank Sinatra as Johnny Dalton Don McGuire as Bob Pulsifer, Jr. Howard Freeman as R. B. Pulsifer, Sr. Nestor Paiva as "Hot Horse" Harris Frank Orth as Mr. Kofer Harry Hayden as J. L. McKissack William Edmunds as Mr. Baganucci, Emile's boss Russell Thorson as IRS tailman Production The film was developed as The Pasadena Story. It was based on a story by Leo Rosten which Michael Curtiz purchased. Curtiz hired Mel Shavelson to write the script. In February 1948 Curtiz sold the story and script to Signet Productions, Irving Cummings' production company. They tried to arrange release through Columbia. Eventually Signet secured finance with RKO. It was Cummings' first directorial effort since 1944 due to illness. In fact, it would be the last film Cummings directed, in a career that began in 1921.