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Gilda (Original title)
Date: 1946 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Directed by: Charles Vidor

Production company billing: ©1946 Columbia Pictures Corporation Columbia Pictures Corporation presents
Synopsis: The faithful retainer of a gambling house which conceals an international cartel finds that his employer's wife is an old flame of his own.

Genre:
Film noir

Subject:
Gambling
Credits (29)
©/Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corporation, Produced by: Virginia Van Upp, Assistant to the Producer: Norman Deming, Assistant Director: Arthur S. Black, [Assistant Director]: George Webster, Screen Play by: Marion Parsonnet, [Screenplay]: Virginia Van Upp, Adaptation by: Jo Eisinger, Story by: E.A. Ellington, Director of Photography: Rudolph Maté, [2nd Camera]: Irving Klein, [Matte Paintings Camera]: Don Glouner, [Miniatures/Special Optical Effects]: Lawrence Butler, Film Editor: Charles Nelson, Art Direction: Stephen Goossón, Van Nest Polglase, Set Decorations: Robert Priestley, Gowns by: Jean Louis, Make-up by: Clay Campbell, Hair Styles by: Helen Hunt, [Part Score/Orchestral Arrangements]: Leo Arnaud, Musical Director: M.W. Stoloff, Marlin Skiles, [Music Mixer]: Edwin Wetzel, Sound Recording by: Lambert Day, [Re-recording/Effects Mixer]: Russell Malmgren, [Research Director]: Juanita L. Bell, Thelma Hoover
Cast (64)
Rita Hayworth (Gilda Mundson), Glenn Ford (Johnny Farrell), George Macready (Ballin Mundson), Joseph Calleia (Obregon), Steven Geray (Uncle Pio), Joe Sawyer (Casey), Gerald Mohr (Captain Delgado), Robert Scott (Gabe Evans), Ludwig Donath (German), Don Douglas (Thomas Langford), Lionel Royce ([German]), Saul Z. Martell ([little man]), George J. Lewis ([Huerta]), Rosa Rey ([Maria, the maid]), Jerry Decastro ([doorman]), Fernanda Eliscu ([Bendolin's wife]), Frank Leyva ([Argentine cartel member]), Sam Flint, Forbes Murray ([American cartel member]), Jean De Briac, Oscar Lorraine ([French cartel member]), George Humbert ([Italian cartel member]), Herbert Evans ([English cartel member]), Philip Van Zandt ([cartel member]), Eduardo Ciannelli ([Bendolin]), Robert Tafur ([clerk]), Russ Vincent ([escort]), Ernst Verebes, Eugene Borden ([dealer]), Alphonse Martell, Leon Lenoir ([croupier]), Soretta Raye ([harpy]), J.W. Moon, Nobel G. Evey ([bunco dealer]), Sam Appel ([black jack dealer]), Jack Del Rio ([cashier]), George Sorel, Jack Chefe, Albert Pollet, Lou Palfy ([assistant croupier]), Julio Abadia ([newsman]), Ralph Navarro, Herman Marks, Carli Elinor, Joe Palma, Alfred Paix ([waiter]), Ted Hecht ([social citizen]), Leander de Cordova ([servant]), Ramon Munoz ([judge]), Fred Godoy ([bartender]), Lew Harvey, John Merton ([policeman]), Cosmo Sardo, Paul Bradley, Nina Bara, Ruth Roman, John Tyrrell, Argentina Brunetti, Ernest Hilliard, Robert Kellard, Frank Leigh, Rodolfo Hoyos, Jean Del Val, Paul Regas ([uncredited])