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Blondie Johnson is a 1933 American pre-Code gangster film directed by Ray Enright and starring Joan Blondell and Chester Morris. It was produced by Warner Bros. [1]
Blondie Johnson: Directed by Ray Enright, Lucien Hubbard. With Joan Blondell, Chester Morris, Allen Jenkins, Earle Foxe. The story of a Depression-downtrodden waif who uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
Blondie Johnson (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Stop Being So Ambitious Having earned each other’s respect, Danny (Chester Morris) and new-in-town Blondie (Joan Blondell, in a role written for her by Warner Bros. stalwart Earl Baldwin) pitch his gangster boss Max (Arthur Vinton) on her plan to get a henchman out of a murder charge, then consider further options, in Blondie Johnson, 1933.
- Ray Enright
- Joan Blondell
Feb 24, 2019 · The 1933 film Blondie Johnson typified the efforts of the inventors of the gangster to explore the new territory on which modern men and women interacted and to fashion values that would guide others over that terrain. In an unusual plot variation, the eponymous heroine is a gang leader and thus a personification of women’s potential independence.
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It’s about a lady gangster who takes over a mob through her wits rather than with her body– which is pretty rare for a Pre-Code. She’s vicious, cunning, and makes suckers out of her enemies.
Getting ahead for women in the Pre-Code Era was often viewed as using logical assets their advantage, and the most logical assets a woman had were her womanly wiles. Barbara Stanwyck displayed this in Baby Face a few weeks ago, where we follow along as she sleeps her way to the top of a bank. Hell, the popular Gold Diggers series is entirely about ...
There is one thing I find completely baffling about the film, that I can only imagine was snuck in as some sort of joke. I get where ‘Blondie’ got her nickname. Why is Chester Morris’ character’s n...
This film is available on Amazon, Amazon Instant Video and Warner Archive, and can be rented from Classicflix.
Ray Enright. Director. Earl Baldwin. Screenplay. A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.
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