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Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone is a 1950 comedy/murder mystery film set on board a train. It stars Marjorie Main and James Whitmore. It is based on the short story "Once Upon a Train (The Loco Motive)" by Stuart Palmer and Craig Rice.
Mrs. O'Malley (Marjorie Main) owns/runs a boarding house in Montana and wins a radio contest by recognizing an obscure song, one her late drunken husband apparently sang after he jumped off a roof believing he could fly - thus his status as deceased. Part of her prize is a trip to New York.
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- Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- Norman Taurog
- 1950-12-08
On Sunday, Mrs O'Malley-Kumar crossed the finish line of Nottingham's Robin Hood Half Marathon with the support of husband Sanjoy, family and friends. She said listening to one of her daughter's ...
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When MGM decided to make it into a film in 1950, the studio changed the Withers character, allegedly due to a rights issue, into Mrs. Hattie O'Malley, a widowed, cantankerous radio contest winner from Montana who meets Malone, and becomes embroiled in a distinctly screwball mystery.
- Norman Taurog, Jack Greenwood
- Marjorie Main
When Kepplar jumps parole on a train to Chicago, Malone follows, in company with Kepplar's ex-wife, a police inspector and Mrs. O'Malley, a hearty radio contest winner from Montana. Kepplar is murdered, and a game of musical corpses commences, with hijinks in coach corridors as Malone and Hattie search for the killer.
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Mrs. O’Malley and Mr. Malone is based on the short story “Once Upon a Train” and while the character John J. Malone was one of the detectives in the Hildegarde films, the Withers character was replaced by Mrs. O’Malley, a hillbilly from Montana.
