Hold That Girl

Hold That Girl

He asked for her hand...and got it!

NR 1934 · 66 min · ★ 9.0 · Comedy

"That girl" is newspaper sob-sister Tony Bellamy (Claire Trevor), whose nose for news gets her into one jam after another, especially when she poses as an exotic dancer to get the goods on a gangster.

Directed by Hamilton MacFadden · Written by Dudley Nichols

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