The Girl Said No

The Girl Said NoBulldog faced, bullmoose framed Marie Dressler would never win a beauty contest, but her powerful turn as a blowzy sot in Anna Christie opposite Greta Garbo won her a legion of devoted fans. In The Girl Said No, her next film, she again hit the bottle. But this time she played a grouchy grande dame unused to the Demon Rum in a laugh 'til you gasp scene that made her reputation as one of the Early Talkie Era's great comediennes. The story follows a

moves and countermoves that center on a scheme to torpedo American transport ships

and an opportunistic agent sets Moxie up with a hot new penman

Delving further into the case leads him to the heart of SoCal's farm country

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then I am against Rome

Chip's brother

younger and faster trying to make his mark

sharing a 1975 Oscar® nomination with lyricist Sammy Cahn for "Now That We're in Love

Knuckles Morgan is not the kind of goon you want to meet on a dark street after midnight

bid each other a tepid farewell when World War II separates them

Gruff Sergeant Bailey has never actually been in combat

streetwise bargirl Anni (Joan Crawford) passes herself off as an aristocrat at a posh Alpine resort