Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Charles C. Wilson
- Mr. Timberg
- (as Charles Wilson)
Luis Alberni
- Second Taxi Driver
- (uncredited)
Florine Baile
- Dancer
- (uncredited)
Joseph Crehan
- Ship Captain
- (uncredited)
Mildred Dixon
- Nightclub Dancer
- (uncredited)
Noel Francis
- Gladys Gable
- (uncredited)
Edward Keane
- El Havana Hotel Desk Clerk
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaWhen Sadie tells Mae that the surest place to find Duffy is at "Sloppy Moe's" - that is undoubtedly a reference to the original Sloppy Joe's Bar in Old Havana, Cuba. Financially devastated by the 1959 revolution and finally closed by a fire in the 1960's, it has been restored and reopened in 2013.
- GoofsWhen Duffy comes over to Mae and Sadie's hotel room to open a bottle of beer; he ends up spraying beer on Mae's dress and staining it. But on the very next cut when Mae goes to check on Deacon, her dress is now clean and stain free.
- Quotes
Mae Knight: I was laid off for turning down a stag affair in Passaic.
Sadie Appleby: Well, I don't blame ya. We've still got a little pride left. You're not so low you have to let 'em throw pennies at ya!
Mae Knight: Throw 'em? In Passaic, they use slinghots.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Complicated Women (2003)
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Fun, if minor, comedy...
...from First National and director Ray Enright. Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell star as a couple of show girls who decide to head for Havana to try and put some unsuspecting rich guys into compromising positions which will result in a big payday for them. They hone in on befuddled older man Guy Kibbee, but Blondell falls for his handsome (but poor) son Lyle Talbot. Also featuring Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins, Ruth Donnelly, Hobart Cavanaugh, Ralph Ince, Luis Alberni, J. Carrol Naish, and Paul Porcasi.
Blondell and Farrell are two of my favorite ladies from this period of film, and I loved seeing them together. McHugh does his perpetual drunk shtick but I still found it funny. The gleefully amoral plot is a definitive example of pre-code inhibition.
What is odd here is that this seems to be a remake of sorts of 1930's The Life of the Party. Both were made in the precode era. The only thing I can figure is that the two female leads of that earlier film - Winnie Lightner and Irene Delroy were no longer headliners, and the new Warner Brothers stars were hardly even on the lot if at all just three years earlier. Thus the attempt at another bawdy version of the story, just with better sound technology and more current stars.
Blondell and Farrell are two of my favorite ladies from this period of film, and I loved seeing them together. McHugh does his perpetual drunk shtick but I still found it funny. The gleefully amoral plot is a definitive example of pre-code inhibition.
What is odd here is that this seems to be a remake of sorts of 1930's The Life of the Party. Both were made in the precode era. The only thing I can figure is that the two female leads of that earlier film - Winnie Lightner and Irene Delroy were no longer headliners, and the new Warner Brothers stars were hardly even on the lot if at all just three years earlier. Thus the attempt at another bawdy version of the story, just with better sound technology and more current stars.
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- AlsExGal
- Apr 29, 2023
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- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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