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Director
  
Kurt Neumann

Film series
  
Hal Roachs Streamliners

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy

Music director
  
Edward Ward

Country
  
United States

Brooklyn Orchid movie poster

Release date
  
January 31, 1942 (1942-01-31)

Writer
  
Earle Snell (screenplay), Clarence Marks (screenplay)

Cast
  
William Bendix
(Timothy 'Tim' McGuerin),
Joe Sawyer
(Eddie Corbett),
Marjorie Woodworth
(Lucy 'The Brooklyn Orchid' Gibbs),
Grace Bradley
(Sadie McGuerin),
Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher
(Tommy Lyman Goodweek (as Skeets Gallagher))

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Tagline
  
SOME FUN!...When This Blonde Incendiary-Bomb Burts Inside Two Family Circles At Once!

Brooklyn Orchid is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Kurt Neumann and written by Earle Snell and Clarence Marks. The film stars William Bendix, Joe Sawyer, Marjorie Woodworth, Grace Bradley, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Florine McKinney and Leonid Kinskey. The film was released on January 31, 1942, by United Artists.

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Plot

A couple of cab drivers, Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett, cope with the women in their lives. Tim's social-climbing wife Sadie has a secret, that she once worked as a stripper. Eddie's conniving sweetheart Mabel plans to use this information against Sadie when she becomes irritated by her.

Tim and Eddie go fishing and catch a whopper -- a beautiful woman. Lucy Gibbs turns out to be the winner of the "Brooklyn Orchid" beauty pageant, but rather than he pleased, she's actually making a suicide attempt over its adverse effect on her life. She now blames Tim and Eddie for spoiling her plans.

The boys take their ladies to a health spa, but Lucy follows them and complicates matters. When a band strikes up, Sadie announces that Mabel is in the room and can do her "act." Lucy saves the day, pretending to be Sadie and hiding her secret. Sadie then cuts up Mabel's dress and tosses her into a swimming pool. Tim and Eddie decide not to go fishing again.

Cast

  • William Bendix as Timothy 'Tim' McGuerin
  • Joe Sawyer as Eddie Corbett
  • Marjorie Woodworth as Lucy 'The Brooklyn Orchid' Gibbs
  • Grace Bradley as Sadie McGuerin
  • Richard "Skeets" Gallagher as Tommy Lyman Goodweek
  • Florine McKinney as Mabel Cooney
  • Leonid Kinskey as Ignatz Rachkowsky
  • Rex Evans as Sterling, McGuerin's Butler
  • Jack Norton as Jonathan McFeeder

    • References

    Brooklyn Orchid Wikipedia
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    Brooklyn Orchid IMDb Brooklyn Orchid themoviedb.org