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Papa's Delicate Condition is a american film of genre Comedy directed by George Marshall released in USA on 6 march 1963 with Jackie Gleason
Papa's Delicate Condition (1963)
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Add to a movie listPapa's Delicate Condition is a 1963 comedy film starring Jackie Gleason and Glynis Johns. It was an adaptation of the Corinne Griffith memoir of the same name, about her father and growing up in Texarkana, Texas. Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics) won an Academy Award for Best Song for "Call Me Irresponsible".
Another Cahn/Van Heusen song, "Walking Happy," was used in a scene with Gleason and his on-screen daughter Linda Bruhl walking down a street while he sings about the people they meet along the way, but the scene was cut before the film's release. The song was later used in a Broadway musical of the same name.
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Jack Griffith, known as "Papa" to all, is a family man in a Texas town, but an irresponsible one. To impress his 6-year-old daughter Corinne, he spends the family's savings to buy his own circus, simply so the little girl can have her own pony.Actors
Jackie Gleason
(Jack Griffith)
Glynis Johns
(Amberlyn Griffith)
Charles Ruggles
(Anthony Ghio)
Laurel Goodwin
(Augusta Griffith)
Charles Lane
(Mr. Cosgrove)
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