Ep 53: Theresa Harris in The Flame of New Orleans (1941)

Theresa Harris played supporting roles next to some of the biggest names in woman's pictures: Barbara Stanwyck, Ginger Rogers, Jean Harlow, and Bette Davis. But in The Flame of New Orleans, she steals the picture outright from Marlene Dietrich, without the benefit of elaborate makeup and costumes. Harris's character Clementine speeds the plot forward with a vibrant joie de vivre. Criminally overlooked by Hollywood, left to languish in thankless roles playing a maid, Theresa Harris shines the brightest in Rene Clair's picture.