Girls Can Play (1937)
Foy Harris (John Gallaudet) is a bootlegger selling illegal booze and also running a girl's professional softball team and is romancing the team's catcher Sue Collins (Rita Hayworth). The murder of one of the team members gets a police detective, Lieutenant Flannigan (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams and Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley) a dim-witted, cub newspaper sports reporter involved. The reporter also has a romance going with the team's ace pitcher Ann Casey (Julie Bishop as Jacqueline Wells.)
Books with substantial mentioning of Girls Can Play
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Hal Erickson The Baseball Filmography, 1915 through 2001 Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 2002 |
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Gene Ringgold The Films of Rita Hayworth Secaucus, New Jersey, 1974 |
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Books with an entry on Girls Can Play
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Larry Langman and Daniel Finn A Guide to American Crime Films of the Thirties Westport, Connecticut - London, 1995 |
