Two classic comedies starring Bob Hope. In Sorrowful Jones (Sidney         Lanfield, 1949, 88 mins.), Hope stars as a penny-pinching Broadway bookmaker     who "inherits" a five-year-old girl from a gambler. Easing Hope's entry into     reluctant fatherhood is his old flame Gladys (Lucille Ball), a nightclub       singer. In Paleface (Norman Z. McLeod, 1948, 91 mins.), Bob Hope is      Painless Potter, a timid dentist on his way west with his bride Calamity Jane  (Jane Russell). This movie won an Oscar for Best Song ("Buttons and Bows") an  d spawned a sequel and a remake (The Shakiest Gun in the West) with Don    Sidney Lanfield/Norman Z. McLeod---USA---1949/1948---179 mins.