The Stork Club (1945) watch online

The Stork Club is a 1945 American musical comedy film directed by Hal Walker and starring Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald and Don DeFore, with Robert Benchley, Bill Goodwin, Iris Adrian, Mikhail Rasumny, Mary Young and Andy Russell. The film was produced by B.G. DeSylva Productions, the then newly formed production company of former Paramount executive producer Buddy DeSylva, and released by Paramount Pictures.

Betty Hutton introduced the song "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" in the film, of which Hutton's recording quickly reached number #1 on the Billboard Magazine charts.

The film follows a hatcheck girl called Judy Peabody, played by Hutton, who works at the prestigious nightclub the Stork Club. She saves a wealthy old man, Jerry Bates, played by Fitzgerald, from drowning; he, in thanks for her saving his life, anonymously sends her gifts and money. However, things are complicated when her bandleader boyfriend Danny Wilton, played by DeFore, returns from World War II.

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