Lovelorn Laundress Finds Love in this 1934 Warner Brothers Film

Nearly 90 years ago, the incomparable Joan Blondell 

as Mabel in Dames was the Girl with the Ironing Board.

 

In this musical comedy, forgotten and broken hearted Mabel 

sung as she washed, ironed and hung out...

 

Men's Underwear !! 

Infatuated with the men who owned these laundered 

union suits, she found long underwear as surrocates 

to those she was unable to capture as her own.

Their long johns would have to do!

Working in a laundry was never so much fun!

Just ask any of these washerwomen...

Music by Harry Warren and Lyrics by Al Dubin 

To Be Continued....