Joan and Glenda together in a scintillating comedy - or so I thought but, as usual, I was disappointed (just as I was with "Havana Widows"). I suppose the idea of them starring together looks good on paper but Joan Blondell was a more conventional leading lady with a zippy mouth for a wise crack. Glenda Farrell was zany and sassy and I just adore her and unfortunately she was never going to be the star when Joan was around. To see Glenda in a snappy comedy I recommend "Girl Missing" - unfortunately she didn't get the leading man ( pastel pretty Mary Brian was around for that) but she did get to show off some of her mile a minute speeches.
Not in "I've Got Your Number" unfortunately. In this movie, for all her co-star billing she had one scene as a zany phoney medium and another small one where she was Allen Jenkins rather drunk date!!! She and Joan shared no scenes together. The real star was Pat O'Brien, in the sort of part he was perfecting in the early 30s - Terry, a wise cracking ladies man who knows all the answers. Along with Allen Jenkins as John, they play a couple of trouble shooting telephone repairmen who are the despair of their boss, Joe Flood (Eugene Palette). In this inconsequential story, Terry meets Marie (Blondell) a telephonist who has just had to resign due to some unsavoury gossip linking her to a betting scandal. She needs employment and Terry remembers Mr. Schuyler (Henry O'Neil) and his promise to help if Terry was ever in a jam. Marie is soon efficiently working the switchboard but Nicky (her friend's boyfriend and the originator of the betting scam) turns up like a bad penny and once again Marie is up to her ears in a bonds theft - completely innocent of course!!! It finishes very quickly, Terry is captured but with his inside knowledge of telephone wiring methods is, unbeknownst to the crooks, able to alert his office and have help on the way.
Just a so-so movie, good for a rainy afternoon but not memorable.
Not in "I've Got Your Number" unfortunately. In this movie, for all her co-star billing she had one scene as a zany phoney medium and another small one where she was Allen Jenkins rather drunk date!!! She and Joan shared no scenes together. The real star was Pat O'Brien, in the sort of part he was perfecting in the early 30s - Terry, a wise cracking ladies man who knows all the answers. Along with Allen Jenkins as John, they play a couple of trouble shooting telephone repairmen who are the despair of their boss, Joe Flood (Eugene Palette). In this inconsequential story, Terry meets Marie (Blondell) a telephonist who has just had to resign due to some unsavoury gossip linking her to a betting scandal. She needs employment and Terry remembers Mr. Schuyler (Henry O'Neil) and his promise to help if Terry was ever in a jam. Marie is soon efficiently working the switchboard but Nicky (her friend's boyfriend and the originator of the betting scam) turns up like a bad penny and once again Marie is up to her ears in a bonds theft - completely innocent of course!!! It finishes very quickly, Terry is captured but with his inside knowledge of telephone wiring methods is, unbeknownst to the crooks, able to alert his office and have help on the way.
Just a so-so movie, good for a rainy afternoon but not memorable.