Mae and Sadie, impecunious chorus girls, chisel some money from an admirer and head for Havana to “dig gold” among the millionaires. Read More »
Tag Archives: Joan Blondell
Miss Pinkerton (1932) Lloyd Bacon, Joan Blondell, George Brent, Ruth Hall, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues Read More »
Make Me a Star (1932) William Beaudine, Joan Blondell, Stuart Erwin, Zasu Pitts, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Menton Gill is longing to become a cowboy actor and leaves his hometown to try his luck in Hollywood, but there his acting ability is regarded as non-existent. Read More »
The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932) Lowell Sherman, Joan Blondell, Madge Evans, Ina Claire, Comedy
Sophisticated comedy: a trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Read More »
The Famous Ferguson Case (1932) Lloyd Bacon, Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne, Crime, Drama
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Read More »
Lawyer Man (1932) William Dieterle, William Powell, Joan Blondell, David Landau, Drama, Romance
Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Read More »
The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939) Alexander Hall, Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Clarence Kolb
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor’s secretary. Read More »
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) Mervyn LeRoy, Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Chorus girls Polly, Carol and Trixie are ecstatic when they learn that Broadway producer Barney Hopkins is putting on a new show. Read More »
Goodbye Again (1933) Michael Curtiz, Warren William, Joan Blondell, Genevieve Tobin, Comedy, Romance
Famed author Kenneth Bixby is on a tour of the US with his assistant Anne Rogers to promote his latest novel, Miriam. Read More »
Broadway Gondolier (1935) Lloyd Bacon, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Adolphe Menjou, Comedy, Musical, Romance
A tuneful taxi driver secretly works to achieve his dream of becoming a radio singer in this musical comedy. Read More »
God’s Gift To Women (1931) Michael Curtiz, Frank Fay, Laura La Plante, Joan Blondell, Comedy, Romance
Contemporary Casanova Toto loves beautiful women and pursues them shamelessly. Read More »
Don Juan Quilligan (1945) Frank Tuttle, William Bendix, Joan Blondell, Phil Silvers, Comedy
In this comedy, a barge captain with an Electra complex marries two women. He married the first because she laughed like his late mother. He married the other because she cooks like his mom. He soon finds himself in over his head. A good friend helps extricate him by devising an ingenious plot. The captain is to be blamed for a murder. He can then escape his wives by pretending to be sent to prison.
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