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Musical Monday: Incendiary Blonde (1945)

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It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals.
In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals.

This week’s musical:
Incendiary Blonde (1945) – Musical #411

Studio:
Paramount Pictures

Director:
George Marshall

Starring:
Betty Hutton, Arturo de Córdova, Charles Ruggles, Bill Goodwin, Barry Fitzgerald, Albert Dekker, Mary Phillips, Eduardo Ciannelli, Frank Faylen (uncredited), Catherine Craig (uncredited), Johnny Johnston (uncredited), Catherine Craig (uncredited)
Themselves: Maurice Rocco, The Maxellos

Plot:
Biographical film on the life and career of performer and speakeasy owner, Texas Guinan (Hutton). Guinan was known as “queen of the nightclubs” in the 1920s. The film shows Guinan leaving home to work in a Wild West Show and then working her way up to fame through Broadway shows, films and then a leading nightclub entertainer. Along the way, Guinan pines for Bill Romero Kilgannon (de Cordova).

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Star Collector

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Anita Page in the 1920’s. At one point she had more fan mail than Greta Garbo.

Not only am I old-fashioned in my movie tastes, but I am also pretty passe as a movie fan.

I write fan mail.

You may be thinking, “Who does that anymore?” A surprising amount do continue to write to stars like Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis and Elizabeth Taylor. No one writes the stars of today, though, like Angelina Jolie, Orlando Bloom or Jennifer Aniston. Why is this? Because they won’t answer…that is if you can even find an address to write to.

I get my fan mail addresses from an autograph database called StarTiger.com. On the website you can search virtually any movie star, singer or sports player. Each star has their own profile page. On this page there is a list of addresses that you can contact them.

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