La femme aux cigarettes blondes

Original title: Trade Winds

1938
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1h 33m

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Joan Bennett and Fredric March in La femme aux cigarettes blondes (1938)

Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye, a skirt chasing detec... Read allKay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye, a skirt chasing detective. The two soon develop a shipboard romance.Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye, a skirt chasing detective. The two soon develop a shipboard romance.

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6.3/10

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Awards
- 3 wins total

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Fredric March

Sam Wye

Joan Bennett

Kay Kerrigan

Ralph Bellamy

Ben Blodgett

Ann Sothern

Jean Livingstone

Sidney Blackmer

Thomas Bruhme II

Thomas Mitchell

Police Commissioner Blackton

Robert Elliott

Captain George Faulkiner

Joyce Compton

Mrs. Johnson

Richard Tucker

John Johnson

Dorothy Comingore

Ann
(as Linda Winters)

Wilma Francis

Judy

Paulita Arvizu

Hawaiian Girl
(uncredited)

Hooper Atchley

Detective
(uncredited)

Art Baker

Police Announcer
(voice)
(uncredited)

Harry Barris

Pianist
(uncredited)

Phyllis Barry

Ruth
(uncredited)

Jack Baxley

Detective
(uncredited)

Brooks Benedict

Roger - Party Guest
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Ann Sothern's character proved so popular in this movie, it was spun off to create series of "Maisie" films.

Goofs
When Thomas is shot, he is wearing a striped robe with a bright monogram on the left breast. When we later see his body on the floor, with the police investigating, the monogram is missing.

Quotes
Commissioner Blackton: There's not one of you - not one - that could trail a puppy with muddy feet across a white bedspread.

Connections
Referenced in The Rookie Cop (1939)

Soundtracks
When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
(uncredited)
Lyrics by Chauncey Olcott and George Graff (as George Graf, Jr.)
Music by Ernest Ball
Played by Fredric March on piano

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What an embarrassing waste of talent

It was not really funny. It was not really a mystery because we saw the shooting and heard the cop's description of the murder and that was not what we had witnessed and so we knew what would eventually happen somewhere down the pike.

When the "mystery" was cleared up we had never met the perpetrator before OR that person had been too insignificant to notice. And the finale seemed rushed and pointless.

As for the talent being wasted ... Ann Sothern TRIED but her dialogue was forced. Ralph Bellamy is too smart to play stupid convincingly, Joan Bennett and Frederic March seemed unconvincing as a romancing pair.

The rear projection was pitiful ...even for being the first feature to use it extensively. Lame and distracting.

Skip this one !