Don't Bet on Blondes

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Claire Dodd and Warren William in Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)

An insurance agent falls for a client's daughter after writing a policy guaranteeing her single status.

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An insurance agent falls for a client's daughter after writing a policy guaranteeing her single status.An insurance agent falls for a client's daughter after writing a policy guaranteeing her single status.An insurance agent falls for a client's daughter after writing a policy guaranteeing her single status.

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Trivia
In preparation for their book, "The Films of Errol Flynn," authors Clifford McCarthy, Rudy Behlmer, and Tony Thomas arranged for a screening of Don't Bet on Blondes (1935) at Warners. However, the studio's nitrate print was in such bad shape that Warner decided to destroy the print because of its deteriorating, highly flammable state.

Goofs
When Youngblood is chatting with Markham, his mint julep jumps from his left hand to his right and then back again.

Quotes
Col. Jefferson Davis Youngblood: Your charm excuses your accidental Northern birth.

Connections
Featured in Captain Blood: A Swashbuckler Is Born (2005)

Soundtracks
Sweet Georgia Brown
(1925) (uncredited)
Music by Maceo Pinkard and Ben Bernie
Played on a record in Youngblood's home

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6/10

Damon Runyon Types Turn Respectable

Bookmaker Warren William refuses to pay off when Clay Clement's doped horse wins; he has the doctor's report. Tired of the rackets, William turns legit, recasting himself as an insurance agent. When his new-found respectability gets leading actress Claire Dodd interested in him, Clement sees an opportunity for revenge: he has Miss Dodd's father, Guy Kibbee, a phoney-baloney scholar who's supposed to be writing a southern-fried history of the Civil War take out a $50,000 policy against her getting married... with William carrying the risk.

Will true love -- or as true as it gets in faux-Damon Runyon territory conquer, or will the fifty grand carry the day? There are lots of fine character actors with monikers like "Brains" and "Numbers" and Errol Flynn gets a promotion from appearing as a corpse on a slab.