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    Rhubarb (1951)

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    Dotty multi-millionaire TJ Banner (Gene Lockhart) leaves his entire fortune to a fierce ginger cat called Rhubarb – who also inherits a failing baseball team, the Brooklyn Loons.

    The team’s publicity agent, Eric Yeager (Ray Milland) is nominated as the cat’s guardian, bringing no end of complications to his career and love life – his fiancée Polly Sickles (Jan Sterling) is allergic to Rhubarb and has a sneezing fit whenever he’s around.

    Meanwhile, Banner’s spoiled and nasty daughter Myra (Elsie Holmes) plots to dispose of Rhubarb so she can get her hands on her late father’s money.

    But it turns out that the cat has a magical influence on the ailing Brooklyn team, who win every time he attends one of their games. Soon the players are rubbing his head for good luck and the Loons are heading for the World Series.

    Almost inevitably, the cat is kidnapped by the bookies to keep him from showing up at the Loons’ critical seventh game at Banner Field in Brooklyn against the Yankees

    The cat out-acts everyone in sight, which is no mean feat considering the cast. A young Leonard Nimoy makes an uncredited appearance as a baseball player.

    Fourteen different cats portrayed Rhubarb at different points in the film. Each cat was trained to do a different trick.

    Eric Yeager
    Ray Milland
    Polly Sickles
    Jan Sterling
    Thaddeus ‘TJ’ Banner
    Gene Lockhart
    Len Sickles
    William Frawley
    Myra Banner
    Elsie Holmes
    P. Duncan Munk
    Taylor Holmes
    Orlando Dill
    Willard Waterman
    Dud Logan
    Henry Slate
    Ogelthorpe ‘Oggie’ Meadows
    James Griffith
    Doom
    Jim Hayward
    Pheeny
    Donald MacBride
    Mr Fisher
    Hal K. Dawson

    Director
    Arthur Lubin

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