Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell

The life and loves of the woman whose beauty had the world and its famous men at her feet!

NR 1940 · 127 min · ★ 6.7 · Drama, Music

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Directed by Irving Cummings · Written by William Anthony McGuire

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