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Director
  
Alexander Hall

Producer
  
William Perlberg

Duration
  

Language
  
English

6.8/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Mystery

Costume design
  
Robert Kalloch

Country
  
United States

Theres Always a Woman movie poster

Release date
  
April 20, 1938

Based on
  
Theres Always a Woman1937 story in American Magazine by Wilson Collison

Writer
  
Gladys Lehman (screen play), Wilson Collison (story)

Cast
  
Melvyn Douglas
(William Reardon),
Joan Blondell
(Sally Reardon),
Mary Astor
(Lola Fraser),
Frances Drake
(Anne Calhoun),
Jerome Cowan
(Nick Shane),
Robert Paige
(Jerry Marlowe)

Similar movies
  
The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

Tagline
  
A new laugh hit from the studio that gave you "The Awful Truth"!

There's Always a Woman is a 1938 comedy mystery film starring Melvyn Douglas as a detective investigating a murder and Joan Blondell as his interfering wife Sally. The movie was based on the short story of the same name by Wilson Collison and the supporting cast includes Mary Astor. Seeing the potential for a series Columbia Pictures quickly made a sequel, There's That Woman Again (1939) with Douglas reprising his role but with Virginia Bruce as Sally. No further films were made in the series.

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A 19-year-old Rita Hayworth makes a small uncredited appearance in this film as Mr. Ketterling's secretary.

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Plot

Theres Always a Woman 1938 Alexander Hall Joan Blondell Melvyn

Bill Reardon's (Melvyn Douglas) private detective agency isn't making enough money, so he closes it and takes a job with the district attorney's office. Because the bills keep piling up, wife Sally (Joan Blondell) decides to try being a private eye herself.

Theres Always a Woman 1938 Alexander Hall Joan Blondell Melvyn

Sally is hired by a socialite, Lola Fraser (Mary Astor), to find out if Lola's husband Walter (Lester Matthews) is having an affair with Anne Calhoun (Frances Drake), as she suspects. At a nightclub owned by Nick Shane (Jerome Cowan), pretending to be out with Bill for pleasure rather than business, Sally observes that Anne's angry fiancé Jerry Marlowe (Robert Paige) is threatening Walter Fraser, and before long Walter ends up dead.

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Jerry is the prime suspect. Mr. Ketterling (Pierre Watkin), who is Jerry's employer, hires Sally to prove him innocent. Shane could be behind it, she figures, but Shane's murdered body is found as well, and Sally catches a whiff of a familiar perfume, Lola's.

With her husband's help, Sally proves that Lola decided to kill Walter to become a wealthy widow because he was planning to divorce her. Lola gets her just deserts, and Sally becomes a first-rate sleuth.

Cast

  • Joan Blondell as Sally Reardon
  • Melvyn Douglas as William Reardon
  • Mary Astor as Lola Fraser
  • Frances Drake as Anne Calhoun
  • Jerome Cowan as Nick Shane
  • Robert Paige as Jerry Marlowe
  • Thurston Hall as District Attorney
  • Pierre Watkin as Mr. Ketterling
  • Walter Kingsford as Grigson
  • Lester Matthews as Walter Fraser

    • References

    There's Always a Woman Wikipedia
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