Big Town Girl

Claire Trevor stars in "Big Town Girl" from 1937 with Donald Woods, Alan Dinehart, and Alan Baxter.

Trevor play a singer, Fay Loring, who goes on the run from her criminal husband (Baxter). She changes her identity and goes to another city where she gets work in a department store. She is overheard singing by a slick agent, Larry Edwards (Dinehart) who thinks he can make her a star.

The problem, Fay can't be a star because she can't appear in public, lest her husband find her. She and Edwards come up with a gimmick - a masked singer. See, everything old is new again.

In this case, she is a French countess who wears a mask so as not to embarrass her family. A reporter, Mark Tracey (Donald Woods) who is suspicious of yet another scheme by Edwards, is determined to find out who she is.

Delightful, short film with another fine performance by Claire Trevor. Alan Baxter as her husband is horrendous. The rest of the cast is very good and fun.