Red-Haired Alibi
Directed by Christy Cabanne
Written by Edward T. Lowe from a novel by Wilson Collison
1932/US
Tower Productions
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Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband. — Al Capp
Cigarette-stand girl Merna Kennedy gets hired by man-about-town Theodore van Eltz to pose as his wife at critical moments. She is unaware he’s a gangster. Eventually, she marries a straight-arrow widower and forms a mutual admiration society with his toddler daughter (Shirley Temple in her film debut). Complications ensue.
Actors are appealing. Plot is kind of meh.
A star is born
