Silver Queen is a 1942 American Western film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring George Brent and Priscilla Lane. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards; one for Best Score and one for Best Art Direction (Ralph Berger, Emile Kuri).[1]

Silver Queen
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Directed byLloyd Bacon
Screenplay byCecile Kramer
Bernard Schubert
Story byForrest Halsey
William Allen Johnston
Produced byHarry Sherman
StarringGeorge Brent
Priscilla Lane
CinematographyRussell Harlan
Edited bySherman A. Rose
Music byVictor Young
Production
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United Artists
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • November 13, 1942 (1942-11-13)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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After discovering her father has gone broke from the Crash of the Stock Market, a well-known and confident young woman, Coralie, from the Barbary Coast decides to give up her chance at love in order to succeed in card games. She becomes a popular card dealer named the "Silver Queen".

Coralie Adams is torn between James Kincade, the dapper gambler she admires, and Gerald Forsythe, the responsible man her father has chosen for her to marry. But when her father loses the deed to a silver mine in a poker game, she leaves all that behind, relying on her own skill with cards and gambling to pay way and her family's debts. She starts a successful new life as the Silver Queen running her own gambling hall but the past returns and she is once again caught between her finance and the gambler.

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References

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  1. ^ "NY Times: Silver Queen". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2012. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012. Retrieved December 14, 2008.
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