St. Louis Woman

This is a great B-movie from 1934 starring the beautiful and talented Jeanette Loff. She seems to have been forgotten today but she was a popular starlet in the early 1930s.

Johnny Mack Brown is Jim Warren, a college football player with a sweet girlfriend (Roberta Gale). One night he goes to a nightclub to see "St. Louis Lou" (Jeanette Loff) sing. Jim gets into a fight that gets him kicked off the team and expelled from school. When Lou finds out he is broke she convinces her gangster boyfriend Harry (Earle Foxe) to give Jim a job on his professional football team. Warren tries to sabotage Jim's career but Lou steps in and makes sure he is a success. Lou falls in love with Jim which makes Warren even angrier. She tells Warren she wants to marry Jim and lead a normal life with "respectability". Meanwhile Jim's forgotten girlfriend wants him to go back to school and become a doctor. Lou will do anything to keep Jim happy even if that means closing down her nightclub or committing a murder.

Johnny Mack Brown and Jeanette Loff make a great on screen team - they also starred together in the 1928 silent Annapolis. The highlight of the film is Jeanette singing two lovely songs. She wears some fantastic costumes too, Sadly this was one of Jeanette's final films. She took her own life a few years later.