Blonde Ice (1948)

The film begins with Claire Cummings, a gossip reporter, who just married wealthy businessman Carl Hanneman, but.. that doesn't stop her from pledging her undying love to another man. Later at the race track Carl can not believe all the money she is betting on the horses. A letter reveals that she is tired of her marriage. Carl happens sees the letter and tells her the marriage is over. She comes up with a plan that includes Les, a sports reporter, he wonders why Carl has taken a business trip on their honeymoon. When Claire decides to go to her apartment to freshen up, they find Carl dead. Les believes he committed suicide and Claire agrees. The police believe it is murder but Claire gets off through lack of evidence.

Next she goes after Stanley Mason a high powered attorney, who, she wants to represent her late husband's estate. Soon he has fallen under her spell and he gets the police to close her late husband's case. A blackmailer, who helped with Claire's alibi but now wants payment, is shot in the back. Mason suspects Claire and after talking to a doctor tries to convince Claire that she needs help. Unfortunately, Claire doesn't agree and her true colors come through.

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This film belongs to Leslie Brooks who steals the film. She is no Phyllis Dietrichson of Double Indemnity, she can kill off rich husbands herself, and when everything goes wrong, can frame her lover. Like the tag line says, "ICE in her veins, ICICLES in her heart"

I also remember her from the film "Cover Girl" (1945). She played the girl, who gave her tips on how to impress the editors.

Date of Birth 13 July 1922. Started in unbilled bit parts but moved into second leads and almost always cast as provocative dames with evil intentions.Retired from films after a second marriage and moved to Hawaii with her family. Her first husband, Donald Anthony Shay, was an actor and ex-marine. They married in Beverly Hills. He was 24; she was 22.

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Blonde Ice (1948)
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
The Cobra Strikes (1948)
The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947)
Cigarette Girl (1947)
The Secret of the Whistler (1946)
It's Great to Be Young (1946)
The Man Who Dared (1946)
I Love a Bandleader (1945)
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Cover Girl (1944)
Nine Girls (1944)
What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943)
Two Señoritas from Chicago (1943)
City Without Men (1943)
Underground Agent (1942)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Lucky Legs (1942)
Overland to Deadwood (1942)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
You're in the Army Now (1941)
Navy Blues (1941)
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)