Traveling Saleslady (1935)

Angela Tritchell is the daughter of a tooth-paste manufacturer, Rufus K. Twitchell, who has monopolized the business for many years that he has grown conservative, and his rivals have begin... See full summary »

Director:

Ray Enright

Writers:

F. Hugh Herbert (screen play), Manuel Seff (screen play),

Stars:

Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, William Gargan

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Joan Blondell	...	Angela Twitchell
Glenda Farrell	...	Claudette
William Gargan	...	Pat O'Connor
Hugh Herbert	...	Elmer
Grant Mitchell	...	Rufus Twitchell
Al Shean	...	Schmidt
Ruth Donnelly	...	Mrs. Twitchell
Johnny Arthur	...	Melton
Bert Roach	...	Harry
Joseph Crehan	...	Murdock
Mary Treen	...	Miss Wells
James Donlan	...	Andy McNeill
Bill Elliott	...	Freddie (as Gordon Elliott)
Carroll Nye	...	Burroughs
Harry Holman	...	Pat O'Connor's Uncle

Storyline

Angela Tritchell is the daughter of a tooth-paste manufacturer, Rufus K. Twitchell, who has monopolized the business for many years that he has grown conservative, and his rivals have begin to cut into his sales. Angela wants to enter the business but he thinks women have no place in a man's world. A drunken inventor, Elmer Niles, tries to interest Mr. Twitchell into his line of toothpaste with various cocktail flavors, but is shown the door. Angela sees the possibilities in the idea, sells it one of her father's business rival under the stipulation she will go on the road for a year and sell the product. She steals her father's customer in a wholesale fashion right out from under the nose of her father's best salesman, Pat O,Connor, whom she is in love with. But it's whoopee at night and all-business during the day. Claudette Ruggles, a drug-store owner, also has designs on O'Connor.

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Plot Keywords:

salesman | customer | toothpaste | love | cocktail | 

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Taglines:

Have You Heard the One About THE TRAVELING SALESLADY! (original poster)

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Certificate:

Approved

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 March 1935 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Mulher Triunfa

Filming Locations:

Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros, Vitaphone Corporation, The, First National Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

63 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Schmidt: Aha! Revenge mit toothpaste!

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Soundtracks

"Sweet Music"
(1935) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Played on the radio in the Twitchell home

User Reviews

An Early Feminist Statement

The character played by Joan Blondell wants to make it in a man's world and boy, does she! Her pompous father tells her women don't belong in business when she asks for a job -- any job. So she goes to work for his rival. And work she does! Her father is a stuffy toothpaste manufacturer. She hooks up with dizzy inventor Hugh Herbert and comes up with a plan to revolutionize the world of toothpaste. And she leases her and Herbert's services to her father's rival for a year. And then she goes to work in the title capacity.

William Gargan is likable as the salesman who is both her romantic interest and her rival. (He works for her father's company. Needless to say, she is not using her real name; so to him, she is The Enemy.) It is far from a masterpiece. But Blondell is always a delight and it's a brassy, entertaining story.