The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

  • 71% of critics liked it
    (7 reviews)

  • 57% of users liked it
    (209 ratings)

Preston Sturges' final American film was generally conceded to be a disaster in 1949; even star Betty Grable publicly bad-mouthed the finished product. When seen today, Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend, while no classic, seems a lot better than it did five decades ago. Grable plays a western… More

Unrated,
Directed By
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Genres
Western, Drama, Classics, Comedy
In Theaters
May 27, 1949 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Preston Sturges plays his script [based on a story by Earl Felton] with frantic slapstick, stressing raw, bawdy comedy rather than genuine humor, to get the laughs.

  • Bosley Crowther, New York Times

    To paraphrase the theme song, it looks pretty well shot in the end.

  • Geoff Andrew, Time Out

    Fast-moving and witty spoof of Western conventions from one of Hollywood's finest writer/directors of comedy.

  • Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion

    Not so much a lament for the end of the West but for the end of the 1940s

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Shoots itself in the arse once too many times for its prolonged spoof to work smoothly.

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  • jay n


    A notorious flop in its day time has been kind to this and today it is a pleasant if unremarkable comedy, a little risque for the period with a sprightly performance from Betty Grable. Many Sturges regulars pop up in the supporting cast which is always a good thing and Olga San Juan… More

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