blanche-2 Two young women running a ring toss in a carnival work on entering a contest so they can get back to New York in Miss Pacific Fleet (1935).The two women are Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, and they need money so they can return to New York and get chorus work. They decide that Gloria (Blondell) will enter to win $2500 and a trip to New York for two. But they have to get the votes.Amusing comedy. I'm always amazed and how quickly people talked on screen in those days. This film was made during the Depression, something to take peoples' minds of off their troubles. Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell are great as always, and made several films together. Hugh Herbert plays a businessman always trying to get away from his wife. The film also features the usual suspects - Allen Jenkins, Minna Gombell, and Guinn Williams, with good-looking Warren Hull as Gloria's boyfriend.Cute, light, an artifact of another time.

mark.waltz Here, the two blonde bombshells are roommates involved in a Pacific Coast Fleet Week, and the anticipation of who will be crowned "Miss Pacific Fleet". The sponsor of this event is wacky businessman J. August Freytag (Hugh Herbert) whose possessive wife (Minna Gombell) is certain he is playing around on her. She is amusingly abusive to him, reminding him, "August, people already think you're a donkey. Don't open your mouth and remove all doubt." She's also very jealous of "Miss Pacific Fleet" front-runner Blondell and plots a kidnapping to get her out of the way. In the meantime, there's romantic intrigue between Blondell and two servicemen (Allen Jenkins and Warren Hull), and dizzy comedy from the future "My Friend Irma", Marie Wilson.The antics these two girls get into is as zany as anything any of the sitcom sisters in spirit got into, from Lucy and Ethel, Mary and Rhoda, Patsy and Edina, and most obviously here, Laverne and Shirley. One of the funniest moments occurs at a gathering of the various military men and the candidates for "Miss Pacific Fleet" where Gombell shows up, and in an effort to keep Herbert from getting into trouble with his harpie of a wife, Jenkins steps in and makes insinuations about himself with her. Pretty predictable, it's an enjoyable diversion and a reminder of how much fun it could be going to the movies during the depression.

David (Handlinghandel) Joan Blondell must be one of the most appealing actresses in movie history. And Glenda Farrell, though less well known, is also always great company. Allen Jenkins is kind of an unlikely leading man (though he's also a very reliable comic actor.) He shows a very muscular build here, playing a boxer.Hugh Herbert played variations on the same note in way too many movies for my taste. He's amusing here, though. And Minna Gombell is entertainingly shrewish as his bossy wife.The plot involves a beauty contest. The girls are roommates and they're hoping Blondell can win and turn around their financial fortune. Though it's pretty G (or maybe PG) stuff, we see lots of beautiful girls who are also contestants.Anyone who likes the Golddigeer movies, "42nd Street," etc., is likely to find this slight but agreeable.

drednm One in a series of B pictures that teamed Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell as brassy dames usually on the run or on the make. Here they get talked into a fixed beauty pageant so they can scram California and get back to Broadway and chorus girl jobs. They run a ring toss concession in a carny.Fast and funny but without much substance, the girls are a good comedy team, usually aided by stock players from Warners: Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Minna Gombell, Mary Treen, Marie Wilson, Eddie Acuff, Warren Hull, Mabel Colcord, Sarah Edwards, Mary Doran, Jack Norton, and Guinn Williams.Farrell and Blondell are always worth watching but in between a few laughs there's not much going on here. Hugh Herbert gets the most laughs with his HOO HOO act, mimicked by Farrell at one point, but Hull is pretty dull and no one else has much to do. The boxing angle with Jenkins is pretty lame.