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2 January 1937 (USA) morePlot:
Journalist Torchy Blane and her fiance Lt. Steve McBride are trying to solve the murder of Tim Torgson, who was killed right before Torchy's eyes. more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Torchy and Steve McBride go after a killer moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Glenda Farrell | ... | Torchy Blane |
| Barton MacLane | ... | Steve McBride |
| Wini Shaw | ... | Dolly Ireland (as Winifred Shaw) |
| Addison Richards | ... | Fitz Mularkey |
| Robert Paige | ... | Lewis Friel (as David Carlyle) |
| Craig Reynolds | ... | Tom Carney |
| Charlotte Wynters | ... | Marcia Friel (as Charlotte Winters) |
 | Jane Wyman | ... | Dixie - Hatcheck Girl |
| Joseph Crehan | ... | 'Tiny' Torgenson |
| Tom Kennedy | ... | Gahagan |
| John Sheehan | ... | Leon Blyfuss |
| Max Wagner | ... | Chuck Cannon |
| George Lloyd | ... | Pickney Sax |
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USA:Approved (PCA #2568)Fun Stuff
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Tom Kennedy, who plays the dumb cop Gahagan in this film, repeated the role in all the subsequent Torchy Blane series films. He was the only actor to appear in all nine Torchy Blane movies. moreSoundtrack:
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This 1937 "Torchy Blane" film, "Smart Blonde" has Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell) trying to find out who killed an entrepreneur who just purchased a night club and some gambling establishments. Torchy is a witness to the murder. Later on, one of the suspects, the dead man's bodyguard, is also found dead. Torchy and her some time boyfriend, Lt. McBride (Barton MacLane), as usual, are at odds as far as who the killer is.
There were quite a few of these films, this being the first, starring character actress Farrell, with MacLane as McBride. The two have great chemistry. These films were always lively and the real story always seemed to be about Torchy and McBride's relationship rather than any actual mystery, though the mysteries certainly were present.
Fast-talking, smart Torchy is an independent woman along the lines of Hildy in "His Girl Friday" and the Torchy Blane series was the first (I think) to star a woman; the Maisie series began in 1939.
Always entertaining.