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Alias French Gertie (1930)

Alias French Gertie poster
Directed by
George Archainbaud
Genre
crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 06m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman with a criminal past gets hired as a secretary by a wealthy businessman. She tries to hide her history while building a new life and a romance.

light-heartedromanticfast-pacedplayfulcriminal underworldundercoverglamorousslightly dated

What happens

Alias French Gertie is a 1930 American pre-Code crime film directed by George Archainbaud from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, based upon the unproduced play The Chatterbox by Bayard Veiller. The film stars Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, who were making their first on-screen appearance together. A copy of this film survives in the Library of Congress. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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