Thoroughbreds Don't Cry "Bags & Backpacks" Donna Reed and Dan Dailey

Donna Reed and Dan Dailey play the elder Delanos in Mokey

Gambler-on-the-run James Wylie (Dennis Morgan) knows a good deal when he sees one

(James Caan)

hoping to elude Alan in the crowded streets of Los Angeles

the mistress of Maximus

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry "Bags & Backpacks" Donna Reed and Dan DaileyThe horse racing tale Thoroughbreds Don't Cry marks the first of eight screen pairings (plus two variety act films) of Hollywood legends Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. Rooney plays a swell headed top jockey pressured by his disreputable pop to throw a race so that the ol' man can cash in at the window. Garland is a singing cutie who knows her way around the paddock because she lives at a boarding house for jockeys run by her aunt (a delightful Sophie