Wonderland Burlesque's
Let's All Go To The Movies
She's A Lady!
Part XVII
These ladies are going places!
Yes, sometimes? It takes a lady.
This American crime drama was directed by George B. Seitz and stars Robert Taylor, Virginia Bruce, Pinky Tomlin, and Helen Twelvetrees. It was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
According to MGM records the film earned $310,000 in the US and Canada and $114,000 elsewhere, making a profit of $131,000.
Robert Taylor
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A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon hooks up with a rough-and-tumble oil driller, who takes her to his oil-field in the jungle to show her what 'real' life is like.
This American romantic comedy was directed by Jack Hively, and stars Lucille Ball, Allan Lane, Seffie Duna, Evelyn Brent, Bernadene Hayes and Donald Briggs.
A less risqué remake of the pre-Code Panama Flo (1932), a film starring Helen Twelvetrees.
Ilona Massey
Prudence travels to an isolated Texas town where she has inherited the local paper. She finds the town run by the two men who stole the land from the Indians twenty-five years earlier. They quickly make it clear they do not welcome her free-spirited intervention. Support comes from an unexpected source - a gambler she recently bested in New Orleans!
In Las Vegas, Lucky and two of her girlfriends, Carol and Lisa, plan to steal half a million dollars from the sadistic manager of the Circus Circus Casino. A shadowy man is their contact and organizer. Each of the women could be a weak link in a scheme that has to be flawless: Lucky's boyfriend is a security officer at the casino, Lisa is a trapeze artist who's now plagued with vertigo, and Carol is in debt to a nasty thug - plus, as a Black woman, she's subject to additional harassment. Can the gals pull off the heist, or is the plan, with it's mysterious organizer, too complicated to succeed?
Las Vegas Lady is a 1975 American crime film directed by Noel Nosseck, and starring Stella Stevens, Stuart Whitman, George DiCenzo, Lynne Moody, Linda Scruggs, Joseph Della Sorte, Hank Robinson, Frank Bonner, and Karl Lukas.
A Crown International Pictures release. The company was noted for releasing low budget exploitational fare that often went down well at drive-ins.
This is only composer Alan Silvestri's second film. His first score was for The Doberman Gang (1972). He would go on to score a host of films, including: Predator, Back To The Future, Forest Gump, Cast Away, Polar Express, etc.
The young man who caused a diversion outside the casino entrance is Stella Stevens' son, Andrew Stevens.
Or so these films would have us believe.
They promise lots of drama, the occasional comedy or musical, and a little bit of dirt!
Let's take a walk down Hollywood Blvd. and shine a light on these magnificent classic films.
This way, if you please. But remember...
Ladies first!
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Times Square Lady
(1935)
Toni Bradley comes from a small town in Iowa to New York City. She's to take over her late father's estate and sporting business which is actually a front for an operation which gambles on sporting events. They stack the deck in their favor by sending henchmen who make offers that can't be refused by the athletes involved. A group of her father's associates, led by Steve Gordon and Jack Kramer, are trying to take the estate away from Toni, claiming they are running at a loss or just too troublesome to handle. But with the aid of a songwriter, Pinky Tomlin' and his girlfriend, 'Babe' Heath, Toni fights back and Steve, who finds his head turned, soon finds himself siding with Toni as well!
According to MGM records the film earned $310,000 in the US and Canada and $114,000 elsewhere, making a profit of $131,000.
Panama Lady
(1939)
A less risqué remake of the pre-Code Panama Flo (1932), a film starring Helen Twelvetrees.
Lucille Ball and Allan Lane both previously appeared together in two other films, Having Wonderful Time (1938) and Twelve Crowded Hours (1939).
Four years into her contract at RKO, this was the first film in which Lucille Ball received top billing.
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An American operative in Great Britain and his counterpart from Scotland Yard suspect the beautiful singer Carla Nillson of espionage. As they cleverly unravel her technique of singing in code over the radio, they track her from London, to Lisbon, to New York, where they succeed in tying her to a wealthy candy manufacturer who is, in reality, the saboteur mastermind.
International Lady
(1941)
An American operative in Great Britain and his counterpart from Scotland Yard suspect the beautiful singer Carla Nillson of espionage. As they cleverly unravel her technique of singing in code over the radio, they track her from London, to Lisbon, to New York, where they succeed in tying her to a wealthy candy manufacturer who is, in reality, the saboteur mastermind.
This American spy thriller was directed by Tim Whelan and stars George Brent, Ilona Massey and Basil Rathbone.
An independent production by Edward Small, this film was released through United Artists.
During the production stage, the film was originally titled G-Men versus Scotland Yard.
International Lady was released shortly before the entry of the United States into World War II.
A young Clayton Moore, who would later gain fame as the title character in television's The Lone Ranger, has a small part in this film.
You can watch a colorized version of this movie in its entirety on YouTube for free.
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Texas Lady
(1955)
Prudence travels to an isolated Texas town where she has inherited the local paper. She finds the town run by the two men who stole the land from the Indians twenty-five years earlier. They quickly make it clear they do not welcome her free-spirited intervention. Support comes from an unexpected source - a gambler she recently bested in New Orleans!
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, this American Western was directed by Tim Whelan and stars Claudette Colbert, Barry Sullivan and Ray Collins.
This was director Tim Whelan's final film before his death in 1957
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Las Vegas Lady
(1975)
Las Vegas Lady is a 1975 American crime film directed by Noel Nosseck, and starring Stella Stevens, Stuart Whitman, George DiCenzo, Lynne Moody, Linda Scruggs, Joseph Della Sorte, Hank Robinson, Frank Bonner, and Karl Lukas.
A Crown International Pictures release. The company was noted for releasing low budget exploitational fare that often went down well at drive-ins.
This is only composer Alan Silvestri's second film. His first score was for The Doberman Gang (1972). He would go on to score a host of films, including: Predator, Back To The Future, Forest Gump, Cast Away, Polar Express, etc.
The young man who caused a diversion outside the casino entrance is Stella Stevens' son, Andrew Stevens.
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And that's all for now, folks.
Tune in next time...
Same place, same channel.
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Times Square Lady - Movie Trailer
(1935)
Las Vegas Lady - Movie Trailer
(1975)
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