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The Joan Blondell Collection
Advance to the Rear
Starring: Joan Blondell, Glenn Ford,
Stella Stevens
& Jim Backus
A Union army outfit of misfits and rejects is sent
to
the Western territory. Southern spies try to figure out what they're up
to.
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Back in Circulation
Starring: Joan Blondell & Pat O'Brien
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake
uses her wiles
and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy.
When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and
'Timmy'
spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on
the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her
reporting
results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig,
since
she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the
angles.
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The Blue Veil
Starring: Joan Blondell, Jane
Wyman, Natalie Wood
& Charles Laughton
Story of a young Frenchwoman
named Louise, who, after losing her husband and child in WW I, devotes
the rest
of her life to selflessly caring for other people's children. In true
"woman's story" fashion, Louise ages and ages beautifully,
sacrificing all for the sake of others. On the brink of destitution,
she is
rescued by her former charges, all nicely grown up and boundlessly
grateful.
This movie asks the question "Who is the real Mother
of this Child? The woman who gave it life... or
the woman who gave it love?”
* Please note there is a 30-second segment with a slight
picture distortion
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Central Park
Starring: Joan Blondell &
Wallace
Ford
Rick and Dot, two penniless New Yorkers, meet and
fall
in love in Central Park. Promising to meet later, they separate. Dot is
picked up by small-time hood Nick Sarno, posing as a police inspector,
who promises to pay her $100 to help in a sting operation at a local
charity
benefit. She agrees, unaware that Nick and his gang are merely using
her
to steal the charity receipts themselves. Rick, picked up by Sarno for
being seen talking to Dot, is held captive by the gang at their
hideout.
He breaks loose and rushes to the charity affair to try to save Dot
before
she becomes involved in the heist.
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Cry Havoc
Starring: Joan Blondell, Margaret
Sullavan,
Ann
Southern, Marsha Hunt,
Ella Raines & Francis Gifford
For
Heaven's Sake
Starring: Joan Blondell, Joan Bennett, Clifton Webb
& Robert Cummings
Two angels, Charles and Arthur, are sent
down
to
retrieve a young girl who has selected the couple she wishes to be
borne to but
who are so involved in their theatrical lives that procreation doesn't
get a
look in. To try and ginger things up Charles materialises and poses as
a rich
potential backer for their next show, only to discover that life on
earth can
be quite fun.
Gold Diggers of 1933
Starring: Joan Blondell, Ginger
Rogers,
Dick Powell
& Ruby Keeler
A musical about the Depression? It's so crazy, it
just
might work. A poverty-flummoxed producer tries to mount an extravaganza
with a handful of his favorite showgirls and an assist from a young
composer
with a fat bankroll and a secret.
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He Was Her Man
Starring: Joan Blondell & James
Cagney
Flicker Hayes informs the police after he sets up
two
men to be caught in a phony robbery attempt, because they were
responsible
for his going to prison. Dan Curly escapes, but the other kills a
policeman
and goes to the chair, so Dan wants two hitmen to get Flicker, who
plans
to leave the country. But he meets down-and-out Rose Lawrence, an
ex-prostitute
looking to hitch a ride to a small fishing village in the south to
marry
a Portuguese fisherman, and Flicker decides it would be a nice place to
hide. After he seduces Rose, Flicker stakes her to a bus ticket and
goes
with her. But Pop Sims, who follows them and reports Flicker’s
whereabouts
to Dan, has spotted him. Meanwhile, Rose falls in love with Flicker,
who
is unaware that the hitmen are coming to kill him.
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I've Got Your Number
Starring: Joan Blondell & Pat
O'Brien
The adventures of wisecracking telephone repairmen
Terry
and Johnny are by turns comic, risqué, and heroic. Terry pursues
Marie, a hotel switchboard operator, who loses her job when she
innocently
does a favor for gangster Nicky. Terry gets Marie a job with financier
Schuyler; but Nicky has new plans for her.
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The King and the Chorus Girl
Starring: Joan Blondell, Jane Wyman
& Fernand Gravey
Ex-King Alfred VII is a young, handsome, and
charming
erstwhile monarch who once ruled a nation of two million people. Now
all
he has left are Count Humbert and Duchess Anna, along with enough money
to live an ideal life in Paris with dozens of servants. He hasn't seen
daylight in years; he prefers instead to drink himself into a stupor
regularly.
He's phenomenally bored, and a routine trip to a tedious cabaret finds
a chorus girl flirting with him. He soon finds that to have her love,
he
will have to work it. Something he is not accustomed to doing.
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Ride Beyond Vengeance
Starring: Joan Blondell, Chuck
Connors,
Gloria Grahame,
Bill Bixby, Claude Raines, Michael Rennie,
Jamie Farr, Kathryn Hays, James MacArthur
& Frank Gorshin
Buffalo hunter Jonahs Trapp returns to claim the
woman
he left behind-10 years ago. On his way into town he is robbed of his
fortune,
and there are several suspects Trapp will have to investigate. One of
them
is his estranged wife's suitor.
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Sons O' Guns
Starring: Joan Blondell & Joe
E. Brown
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic
show
on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he
is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with Bernice,
another actress, he acts like joining the forces going over there, but
that turns out to be real. In France he falls in love with Yvonne, a
French
barmaid and is arrested as spy. He escapes from prison, only to end in
the uniform of a German officer leading "his" soldiers in an Allied
trap.
But being escaped from prison and wearing the enemy's uniform isn't
that
healthy in wartime.
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