02 Jan 1937
Smart Blonde
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
Torchy Gets Her Man
Torchy Puts All Her Yeggs In One Basket... And Cracks A Crime Trust Wide Open!
A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.
Top Billed Cast
Glenda Farrell Torchy Blane
Barton MacLane Detective Steve McBride
Tom Kennedy Gahagan
Willard Robertson Charles Gilbert
Thomas E. Jackson Henchman Gloomy (as Tommy Jackson)
George Guhl Desk Sergeant Graves
Frank Reicher The Professor - Henchman
John Ridgely Henchman Bugs
Joe Cunningham Maxie
Herbert Rawlinson Tom Brennan
Nat Carr Mr. Schmidt (uncredited)
Loia Cheaney Marie - Gang Moll (uncredited)
Alice Connors Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)
John Harron John Wilkins (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes Bettor on #9 (uncredited)
Edward Keane Henchman Stoneham (uncredited)
Vera Lewis Woman at Schmidt's Pet Store (uncredited)
Greta Meyer Mrs. Schmidt (uncredited)
Jack Mower Police Officer Shane (uncredited)
Edward Raquello Henchman Gonzales (uncredited)
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