Blondie Johnson
Directed by Ray Enright and Lucien Hubbard
Written by Earl Baldwin
1933/US
First National Pictures (Warner Bros.)
IMDb page
Repeat viewing/Amazon Prime rental
Blondie Johnson: This city’s gonna pay me a livin’. A good livin’! And its gonna get back from me, just as little as I have to give.
This is a very fun movie with the ever fabulous Joan Blondell in the lead for a change.
Blondie Johnson (Blondell) begins as a downtrodden unemployed girl who is homeless along with her dying mother. She quit her last job when the boss couldn’t keep his hands off her. She can get no assistance from the government. When mom dies, she bitterly decides that from now on she will be out for only one thing – money.
She gets a job in the chorus to afford some decent clothes and proceeds to prove herself a very competent con artist. Her first accomplice is taxi driver Sterling Holloway. Then she meets gangster Danny Jones (Chester Morris) and gets involved in progressively more elaborate and lucrative cons. Blondie is all business with Danny but he wants something more.
Joan Blondell lights up the screen in every movie she appears in and never more so than when she stars. She is pitiful, hard-bitten, and love-lorn as required by the plot. Very entertaining and recommended to Blondell fans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO95iUPOpms
