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Meet Danny Wilson is a american film of genre Drama directed by Joseph Pevney released in USA on 1 april 1952 with Frank Sinatra
Meet Danny Wilson (1952)
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Add to a movie listMeet Danny Wilson is a 1952 film starring Frank Sinatra and Shelley Winters. The movie was directed by Joseph Pevney and written by Don McGuire. Sinatra, during his famous career slump between his bobby-soxer heyday and From Here to Eternity (1953), plays a small-time singer who vaults to the top of his profession only to be threatened by a gangster (Raymond Burr).
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Hot-tempered singer Danny Wilson and easy-going pianist pal Mike Ryan get acquainted with Joy Carroll, also a singer. Danny slugs a cop and is thrown in jail, but Joy arranges his bail and a job at mobster Nick Driscoll's club.Actors
Frank Sinatra
(Danny Wilson)
Shelley Winters
(Joy Carroll)
Raymond Burr
(Nick Driscoll)
Alex Nicol
(Michael Francis Ryan)
Vaughn Taylor
(T.W. Hatcher)
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