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).
Plot
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.
Cast
George Brent as James Kincaid
Priscilla Lane as Coralie Adams
Bruce Cabot as Gerald Forsythe
Lynne Overman as Hector Bailey
Eugene Pallette as Steve Adams
Janet Beecher as Mrs. Laura Forsythe
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Blackie
Frederick Burton as Dr. Hartley
Spencer Charters as Doc Stonebraker
Eleanor Stewart as Millicent Bailey
Georges Renavent as Andres
Marietta Canty as Ruby
Sam McDaniel as Toby
Herbert Rawlinson as Judge
Arthur Hunnicutt as Newspaper Publisher Brett
Francis X. Bushman as Creditor
Jason Robards Sr. as Bank Teller (uncredited) Fred Toones as Butler (uncredited)