Too Many Blondes
Cast & Crew
Thornton Freeland
Rudy Vallee
Helen Parrish
Lon Chaney Jr.
Jerome Cowan
Shemp Howard
Film Details
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Synopsis
Newlyweds Dick and Virginia Carrigan and their partner, Ted Bronson, comprise a radio singing trio called the Bluebirds. While the couple is very much in love, Ted is infatuated with Virginia and is willing to do anything to end the Carrigans' marriage. On a train to Hollywood, where a new radio contract awaits them, Dick meets a number of the beautiful chorus girls he knew in vaudeville, and at Ted's instigation, Virginia becomes consumed with jealousy. Dick gets into an all-night poker game with his friends and becomes separated from Virginia and Ted, who arrive in Hollywood a day before him. Ted then convinces Virginia that Dick is wrong for her and persuades the radio manager to fire Dick and hire a replacement. Dick, realizing that a reconciliation at this time is impossible, agrees to a divorce, but argues that it will cost $500. In order to pay for the divorce, Virginia and Dick move into the same apartment to reduce their mutual budget, and place their combined savings in a sugar jar. Some time later, Ted grows concerned when Virginia begins softening towards Dick and demands that Dick go through with the divorce. Meanwhile, Dick meets waitress Hortense, who agrees to help him manufacture "evidence" for the divorce. The two meet at the apartment, only to have Hortense's taxi-driver boyfriend, Marvin Gimble, show up. Marvin is initially suspicious, then cheerfully serenades them, which inadvertently gives away Dick's plan to Virginia when she arrives. Ted overhears Dick pleading for a reconcilliation with Virginia and, in desperation, steals some of their sugar jar money. During an audition for both the new Bluebirds trio and Dick in a solo spot for radio host Mr. Twitchell, Dick sees Virginia in what he mistakenly thinks is a new dress and accuses her of taking the missing money. Ted interrupts, a fight breaks out and Dick accidentally strikes Twitchell, who then refuses to hire him. Miffed over the unresolved "theft," both Dick and Virginia are now determined to divorce and head to Mexico. In the meantime, Twitchell's sponsor insists upon hiring only the original Bluebirds. To save his show, and his job, Twitchell calls Trip, the hotel manager in Mexico, and gets him to help stop the divorce. Trip asks the Carrigans to give a spontaneous performance during the hotel's floor show, and, as Ted watches helplessy, Dick and Virginia realize while singing that they are still very much in love. Afterward, Trip tells Dick about the new contract from the sponsor, but Dick is sure Virginia still wants the divorce. For her part, Virginia feels that her declaration of love would sound false after hearing about the lucrative contract. Trip agrees to make it look as if Dick has lost the divorce money gambling and when Dick apparently heads off to the ocean to commit suicide, an hysterical Virginia dashes after him. Finally, the two confess their feelings and are reunited.
Director
Thornton Freeland
Cast
Rudy Vallee
Helen Parrish
Lon Chaney Jr.
Jerome Cowan
Shemp Howard
Iris Adrian
Eddie Quillan
Irving Bacon
Jeanne Kelly
Paco Moreno
Gus Schilling
Dorothy Lee
Carmela Cansino
Jose Cansino
Humberto Herrera
Edgar Kennedy
Dinorah Rego
Elaine Morey
Charles Trowbridge
Marek Windheim
Guy D'ennery
Eddie Bruce
Douglas Evans
Reid Kilpatrick
Gene O'donnell
Jerry Mandy
Paul Mcvey
Paul Ellis
Alfonso Gomez
Milt Kibbee
Catherine Winter
Kernan Cripps
Joey Ray
Jolly Rawlings
Ethelreda Leopold
Jasper Weldon
Joe Recht
Ernest Wilson
Eddie Coke
Crew
Bernard B. Brown
Bernard W. Burton
Everett Carter
Alanson Edwards
R. A. Gausman
William Hedgcock
Louis S. Kaye
Vernon Keays
Ted Kent
Milton Krasner
Walter O'keefe
Jack Otterson
Charles Previn
Richard H. Riedel
Milton Rosen
Joseph G. Sanford
Maxwell Shane
Maxwell Shane
Vera West
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Notes
Most reviews note that this was director Thornton Freeland's first American film after a seven-year stint working in the English film industry. Freeland, a noted musical director in the 1930s, made such films as Whoopee! (1930) and Flying Down to Rio (1933). While the film's screen credits list Bernard W. Burton as the editior, copyright materials, Universal press releases and early production charts credit Ted Kent with that position.
