The French Line

A cheap spinoff of GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, THE FRENCH LINE is strictly a vehicle for Jane Russell. Here she plays Mary Carson, a Texas heiress who desperately wants to be loved, not for her millions, but for her own voluptuous self. To this end she discards stuffy, acquisitive Phil Barton (Craig Stevens) and takes off on a transcontinental sea trip, pretending to be a model for designer Annie Farrell (Mary McCarty), while hiring the statuesque Myrtle Brown (Joyce MacKenzie) to impersonate her. Also on board is playboy Pierre Duquesne (Gilbert Roland), who has been hired by Waco Mosby (Arthur Hunnicutt) to safeguard the heiress. While apparently believing Myrtle t...