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Incendiary Blonde
Incendiary Blonde
	theatrical release poster
Directed by	George Marshall
Written by	Contract writer:; Ken Englund; James Edward Grant
Screenplay by	Claude Binyon; Frank Butler
Produced by	Joseph Sistrom
Starring	Betty Hutton; Arturo de Córdova; Charles Ruggles; Barry Fitzgerald; Albert Dekker
Cinematography	Ray Rennahan
Edited by	Archie Marshek
Music by	Robert Emmett Dolan; John Leipold
Production; company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	July 25, 1945 (NYC); August 31, 1945 (US); ;
Running time	113 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Incendiary Blonde is a 1945 American musical drama film biography of 1920s nightclub star Texas Guinan. Filmed in Technicolor by director George Marshall and loosely based on a true story, the picture stars actress Betty Hutton as Guinan. The film's title is a play on incendiary bombs being used in World War II.

The score was written by Robert Emmett Dolan, and was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture."

Plot edit

A tomboy named Mary Louise "Texas" Guinan lands a job with a Wild West show after proving she can ride a bucking bronco. The rodeo's new owner is Romero "Bill" Kilgannon, who doubles Texas's pay after the attention she gets from saving a toddler's life from a runaway wagon at a show.

Tim Callahan comes along, looking for a job as the show's press agent by promising not to tell what he has found out, that Texas's "heroism" was a staged act, with a midget pretending to be the endangered child.

Texas sends money home to her impoverished family. Tim falls in love with her, but she prefers Bill, unaware that he is legally bound to an institutionalized wife. Tim ends up marrying Texas and promoting her new career on stage in New York.

Bill tries making movies in Hollywood, but things go badly. A gangster acquaintance, Joe Cadden, takes control of Nick the Greek's nightclub in New York and ends up making Texas his headliner there. Her fame grows, but a feud develops between Cadden and two other racketeers, the Vettori brothers, that leads to bloodshed and threats against Texas and Tim.

Bill saves her life, but is arrested and sentenced to jail. His own wife passes away, making him free to marry again, but Texas has discovered that she has an inoperable condition, and that she will die before Bill can get out of prison.

Cast edit

Betty Hutton as Texas Guinan
Arturo de Córdova as Bill Romero Kilgannon
Charlie Ruggles as Cherokee Jim
Barry Fitzgerald as Michael "Mike" Guinan
Albert Dekker as Joe Cadden
Eduardo Ciannelli as Nick the Greek
Bill Goodwin as Tim Callahan
Mary Philips as Bessie Guinan
Ray Walker as Gus – Stage Manager
Maurice Rocco as himself (waiter/pianist)

Cast notes

This was the final film for character actor Bud Jamison. Jamison, best known for his work with slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges (Disorder in the Court), died suddenly in September 1944. Jamison played the Head bartender, however, he did not receive credit for his work.