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Torchy Gets Her Man is a american film of genre Comedy directed by William Beaudine released in USA on 12 november 1938 with Glenda Farrell
Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)
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Add to a movie listTorchy Gets Her Man is a 1938 drama directed by William Beaudine, starring Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane. This was the sixth of nine in a series of Torchy Blane appeared in the Warner Brothers and First National films.
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In this entry in the "Torchy Blane" series, the young reporter tries to expose a ring of counterfeiters led by a man pretending to be a G-man.Actors
Glenda Farrell
(Torchy Blane)
Barton MacLane
(Detective Steve McBride)
Tom Kennedy
(Gahagan)
Willard Robertson
(Charles Gilbert)
Thomas E. Jackson
(Henchman Gloomy (as Tommy Jackson))
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