Suzy (1936)
A French air ace discovers that his showgirl wife's first husband is still alive.
- George Fitzmaurice
- Herbert Gorman
- Dorothy Parker
- Alan Campbell
- Horace Jackson
- Lenore J. Coffee
- Herman J. Mankiewicz
Rating: 5.8/10 by 21 users
Alternative Title:
Une Belle Blonde - FR
Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 33 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: paris, france, spy, marriage, murder, showgirl
I greatly enjoyed this--the second of seven films from my 'Jean Harlow: The 100th Anniversary Collection' put out by Warner Archives, unfortunately not with anything in the way of DVD extras (except for a cool, unadvertised set of postcards), and only three of the films were remastered. So it was as if they were perhaps celebrating her, say, 99th birthday and not going all-out like they could and should have, since she DID single-handedly save the studio from bankruptcy three years prior. I like the way filmmakers back then didn't care if a French actor was playing an Irish inventor and an English actor was portraying a French pilot. THESE days, there'd be sheer, unadulterated hell to pay. It was a really strange mix of genres, to get absolutely everybody into the seats. I could just see the pitch at the board meeting now: '1914 period piece romantic-comedy mixed with wartime spy thriller and musical'. But Harlow knocked it out of the ballpark, just like she always did. Supertrooper right to the very end.
