''Born to Be Loved'' is a 1959 American
comedy film
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directed by
Hugo Haas. Set in an overcrowded
tenement building
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, it stars
Carol Morris
Carol Ann Laverne Morris (born April 8, 1936) is an American actress, model and beauty queen who was the second Miss USA to win the Miss Universe title in the pageant's fifth edition in 1956. She was crowned by Hillevi Rombin, Miss Universe 1955, ...
(as Dorothy); Hugo Haas (Prof. Brauer);
Dick Kallman (Eddie); and
Barbara Jo Allen (Mrs. Hoffmann).
Plot
A seamstress (
Carol Morris
Carol Ann Laverne Morris (born April 8, 1936) is an American actress, model and beauty queen who was the second Miss USA to win the Miss Universe title in the pageant's fifth edition in 1956. She was crowned by Hillevi Rombin, Miss Universe 1955, ...
) and a music teacher (
Hugo Haas) play cupid for each other, ending with a double wedding.
Cast
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Carol Morris
Carol Ann Laverne Morris (born April 8, 1936) is an American actress, model and beauty queen who was the second Miss USA to win the Miss Universe title in the pageant's fifth edition in 1956. She was crowned by Hillevi Rombin, Miss Universe 1955, ...
as Dorothy Atwater
*
Barbara Jo Allen as Irene Hoffman (as Vera Vague)
*
Hugo Haas as Prof. Brauner
*
Dick Kallman as Eddie Flynn
*
Jacqueline Fontaine
Jacqueline Fontaine (born Joyce Romeo c.1927) is an American actress and singer who was mostly active in the 1950s.
Fontaine was born Joyce Elaine Romeo in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to an Italian-born musician father and Canadian-born mother.
Fontain ...
as Dame
*
Billie Bird as Drunk's Wife
* Pat Goldin as Saxophone Player
*
Robert Foulk
Robert C. Foulk (May 5, 1908 – February 25, 1989) was an American television and film character actor who portrayed Sheriff H. Miller in the CBS series '' Lassie'' from 1958 to 1962.
Early years
Foulk attended the University of Pennsylva ...
as Drunk (as Robert C. Foulk)
* Maryesther Denver as Hallway Woman
* Margot Baker as Suzie's Mother
* Anthony Jochim as Fred (as Tony Jochim)
See also
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List of American films of 1959
External links
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1959 films
1959 romantic comedy films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Hugo Haas
American romantic comedy films
1950s English-language films
1950s American films
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