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one has a complicated genealogy. The story is credited to Frederick Hazlitt Brennan; the screen play stems from Lucille Newmark and Peter Milne; there is additional dialogue by one Patsy Flick. From these no less than mountainous labors comes a mousey little photoplay about two stranded chorus girls whose only hope of getting their fare back to Broadway is by winning a popularity contest with the votes of the enlisted men of the Pacific Fleet. Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, upon whose comic talents the Warners are placing too much emphasis, are the girls; Allen Jenkins is Kewpie Wiggins, their lobbyist in the fleet; Hugh Herbert is August Freytag, president of the Better Business Bureau sponsoring the contest. There is an allegedly humorous prizefight; there is a kidnapping; there is a comedy chase. What more can one expect of a sub-Class B picture? If the first half of the film is endurable, credit it to Mr. Herbert. If the second half is a bore, debit the Warners' recourse to the Old Familiars of Picture-Making. What
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Freytag, who is married to August Freytag, the creator of the beauty contest, is jealous of Gloria and decides to kidnap her, so the prize will go to someone else instead. When Mae learns of her plans, she alerts Kewpie, who spots the kidnappers putting a woman in a small boat. Kewpie chases them to a ship where he frees the woman who ends up to be Sadie. At the last minute, Tom and Gloria arrive at contest headquarters with enough votes for her to win the contest. Gloria and Mae now have enough money to return home to New York.
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should not have been impeded in its headlong flight for second place on a double-feature bill. Being placed alone on the Roxy's screen imposes too great a strain upon the picture and the audience, even conceding that the Roxy's faithful are ever anxious to absorb large doses of nautical comedy. This
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Gloria Fay and Mae O'Brien are two former showgirls working in an amusement park. Sailor Kewpie Wiggins is in love with Gloria, when he wins all their prizes with his skill at tossing rings, he learns that Gloria and Mae are broke. Kewpie suggests that Gloria enters the Miss Pacific Fleet contest to
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During the boxing match, Kewpie is losing the match until he sees that Gloria and Tom are cuddling together in the audience. Angered, he knocks out his opponent and decides to give his 5000 votes to another contestant Virgie Matthews. However, Gloria is still slightly ahead in the contest. Sadie
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win the cash prize. Kewpie then offers to enter a boxing match in order to win 5000 votes for Gloria. He introduces Gloria and Mae to his friend Sgt.Tom Foster. Tom and Gloria fall in love.
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This is one of a series of five movies by Warner Bros. through the early 1930s, where Blondell and Farrell were paired as
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writes in his review: "As unimportant as a corkscrew at a W. C. T. U. convention.
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enter a beauty contest "Miss Pacific Fleet" to win the fare back home to
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Ray Enright
Peter Milne
Lucille Newmark
Hal B. Wallis
Jack L. Warner
Joan Blondell
Glenda Farrell
Hugh Herbert
Arthur L. Todd
Clarence Kolster
Leo F. Forbstein
Warner Bros.
comedy film
Ray Enright
Joan Blondell
Glenda Farrell
Hugh Herbert
Frederick Hazlitt Brennan
Collier's
Warner Bros.
California
New York City
blonde bombshell
Havana Widows
Kansas City Princess
Traveling Saleslady
We're in the Money
Ray Enright
Three on a Match

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