Trade Winds

From producer Walter Wanger, lots of pace introducing Joan Bennett as socialite and pianist Kaye, going after playboy Sidney Blackmer, who caused the death of her sister, screenplay credits including Dorothy Parker and husband Alan Campbell, Tay Garnett directing, opening Trade Winds, 1938.

Sequence in which Joan Bennett (as socialite Kaye, who just righteously shot a guy) becomes the often sultry brunette she would remain for the rest of her career, cop Ralph Bellamy and commish Thomas Mitchell bumbling behind, in Trade Winds, produced by Bennett's future husband Walter Wanger.

Already talked-up as a womanizing private eye, Sam Wye (Fredric March) is introduced at work on a client when his assistant (Ann Sothern) takes a call from the police commissioner who needs help tracking a fugitive murderess, Tay Garnett directing producer Walter Wanger's Trade Winds, 1938.