Little Miss Marker 1980

A wildly romantic comedy about a cookie, a bookie, and the kid they bet their hearts on.

Directed by Walter Bernstein

Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.