Lady for a Night (DVD)

The unlikely combination of John Wayne and Joan Blondell adds a bit of vinegar and spice to this wonderful costume comedy-drama. Jenny Blake (Blondell) is the beautiful owner of a riverboat casino, but she aspires to a life in high society. Jack Morgan (Wayne) is her business partner and influential political boss - the two are in love, but Jenny decides to leave him and the business so she could marry socialite Alan Alderson (Ray Middleton) for prestige and in return she forgives Alan's gambling debts and pays off the back taxes of his family's once-grand mansion and plantation. Her new in-laws are infuriated by this marriage of convenience, and do everything in their power to ruin Jenny in the eyes of society.

Starring: Joan Blondell, John Wayne, Philip Merivale, Blanche Yurka, Ray Middleton, Edith Barrett, Jack George, Leonid Kinskey, Hattie Noel, Montagu Love, Carmel Myers, Dorothy Burgess, Guy Usher, Ivan Miller, Patricia Knox, Lew Payton, Marilyn Hare, The Hall Johnson Choir, Margaret Armstrong, Betty Hill, Jac George, Pierre Watkin, Forbes Murray, Frank Orth, Roy Gordon, Ira Buck Woods, Kathryn Sheldon, Minerva Urecal, Howard Hickman, Eula Morgan, Dudley Dickerson, Paul White, Gladys Gale, Charles Miller, Charles McAvoy, Dick Rush, Henry Thomas, Neely Edwards, Mickey Simpson, Charles Sherlock, Gaby McLaughlin, Tito Valdez, Leigh Whipper, Hal Cooke, Lloyd Whitlock, Howard Mitchell, Dewey Robinson, Dolores Gray, Edith Evanson, Martin Turner, Corinne Valdez, Maxine Ardell, Janet Graves, Loretta Barnett, Valerie Hall, Bunny Bronson, Marion Huston, Margaret Bryson, Jean LeRoy, Jeanette Dickson, Dorothy Schoemer, Frances Gladwin, Nancy Savoy, Gertrude Astor, Pearl Early, Jack Kenney

Rating: NR