“Lulu Belle” Review

Lulu Belle: Directed by Leslie Fenton. With Dorothy Lamour, George Montgomery, Albert Dekker, Otto Kruger. Lulu Belle and George Davis marry despite opposition. Financial struggles lead Lulu to work at a club, causing George’s jealousy and imprisonment. Lulu becomes a Broadway star but chooses George over a wealthy suitor upon his release.

Movie from 1948 starts with a show in which two people are shot and the rest of movie is told in flashback, with the exception of the final scene in which we discover it was the obvious person that shot them all along! Lulu Bell is played by Dorothy Lamour who doesn’t look all that hot in the film, and neither does her supporting friend played by Glenda Farrell, my current retro focus of attention. Both of them feel rough around the edges with Lulu Belle just barely getting more attention than Farrell’s Molly Benson, they travel together through a string of well meaning suckers that fall for Lulu’s affections one after another like sad macho dominos that just can’t help themselves. The ending is a little too trite for my tastes, but the journey to that end was worth it.

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