Three On A Match

Paced with lightning speed, this compact 64-minute gangster melodrama brings together Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, and Bette Davis as former schoolmates who have a reunion after more than 10 years. Blondell, who spent some time in reform school, is a stage actress; Dvorak is a high-society woman, married to lawyer Warren William; and the intelligent Davis is a stenographer. Meeting in a restaurant, the women light their cigarettes from the same match, defying the superstition that the last person to use the match will be the first to die. Later, they meet at a bon voyage party for Dvorak, who is preparing to embark on a cruise with her son, Buster Phelps. Blondell br...