Let's take off with a double-feature on one of Hollywood's first plucky gal reporters!

The first two films in the Torchy Blane series, Smart Blonde and Fly-Away Baby, both debuted in 1937. They focus on Torchy Blane, a journo who's sharp, beautiful, and romantically connected to one of the top detectives in the city. 

Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane starred in these two Frank McDonald-directed pictures as Torchy and her stern swain Detective Steve McBride. Meanwhile, Tom Kennedy shines as the bizarrely poetic Officer Gahagan.

In the first flick, our fair-haired heroine gets more than she bargained for out of an interview when she witnesses the murder of a prominent businessman. In the second one, she's got to hold her own against a gaggle of reporters competing to fly around the world. 

Listen to Kevin and resident blonde reporter Áine get the scoop on these at-times entertaining, at-times sluggish films.

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