Ann Dvorak, Joan Blondell, and Bette Davis are "Three on a Match" in this 1932 precode film also starring Warren William, Humphrey Bogart, and Lyle Talbot. The story concerns three girls who grow up together - one, Vivian (Dvorak) is from a good family and marries a wealthy attorney (William); Mary (Blondell) ends up in reform school and goes into show business when she gets out; and Ruth (Davis) becomes a secretary. The three reconnect in adulthood, but the most successful one, Vivian, is bitterly unhappy. She eventually leaves her husband for a friend (Talbot) of Mary's and becomes a nympho drug addict. Ruth and Mary become concerned for her child and work with the boy's father to get him out of the bad situation.
Heavy melodrama with a showy performance by Dvorak. Davis is unbelievably young and very pretty; she has hardly anything to do. Bogart is a thug whose boss is owed money by Talbot - he, too, has s small role. The film is almost like a history lesson - as each year goes by, we see sheet music for the popular song of the day and newspaper headlines.
Short and entertaining, it's so interesting to see Bogart and Davis, who would end up on top 50 lists of greatest film stars in history, laboring away at these tiny parts. No one can say they didn't pay their dues.
Heavy melodrama with a showy performance by Dvorak. Davis is unbelievably young and very pretty; she has hardly anything to do. Bogart is a thug whose boss is owed money by Talbot - he, too, has s small role. The film is almost like a history lesson - as each year goes by, we see sheet music for the popular song of the day and newspaper headlines.
Short and entertaining, it's so interesting to see Bogart and Davis, who would end up on top 50 lists of greatest film stars in history, laboring away at these tiny parts. No one can say they didn't pay their dues.