Capitalizing on the success of MGM's Thin Man series, virtually every major studio of the 1930s came up with its own husband-and-wife detective team. Columbia's entry was There's Always a Woman, starring Melvyn Douglas and Joan Blondell. Douglas and Blondell are the married proprietors of an unsuccessful private eye. On the verge of quitting the business, Douglas is given a $300 retainer by Mary Astor for a seemingly simple trackdown job. Disinterested, Douglas turns the case over to his wife--but reenters the scene when a murder occurs. Rita Hayworth appears in a 30-second bit, cut down from a full supporting role when the picture threatened to run too long. There's Always a Woman was supposed to be the first of a Douglas/Blondell series, but that notion ended with the comparative failure of their next vehicle, There's That Woman Again (39).
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3
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- Suitable for Children
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- sub-genres
- category
- Feature
- directed by
- countries
- USA
- released
- 1938
- run time
- 82 min.
- produced by
- Columbia Pictures
by Hal Erickson
synopsis
marriage
loot
lawyer
killing
murder
office
wife
problems
private-detective
investigator
investigation
death
criminal
crime-solving
detective
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