Alias French Gertie

Bebe Daniels is a French maid.... for inside jobs. She meets Ben Lyon when he breaks open the safe her "employer" keeps her jewels in. After he gets out of jail, she talks him into going straight...for a while.

Ben Lyons is good, and has the best pre-code line: "I don't need a partner when I've got my right hand". Bebe is great, whether she's putting on a French accent or screaming at Lyon. Apparently he thought so too. They were married three months after this movie was released.

Bebe had been in the movies for 20 years at this point, beginning with the Oz movies that L.Frank Baum had produced. She spent several years as Harold Lloyd's leading lady, then the 1920s, Paramount and Cecil B. Demille came calling. She was booted out of Paramount because she "didn't have a voice" and immediately sang up a storm in RIO RITA. Unfortunately, her other RKO vehicles, like this one, didn't fare so well at the box office. Eventually she and Lyon moved to England and a long career in radio and TV. She died in 1971, 70 years old.