
Three on a Match
Three wise girls who barred no holds and bit in the clinches.
A pre-Code morality tale tracking the tragic downfall of a woman who squanders her advantages through vice, infidelity, and addiction, told with the melodramatic intensity of early 1930s cinema.
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Essence
Ensemble

Joan Blondell
Mary Keaton

Ann Dvorak
Vivian Revere

Bette Davis
Ruth Westcott

Virginia Davis
Mary Keaton as a Child

Anne Shirley
Vivian Revere as a Child

Betty Carse
Ruth Westcott as a Child

Warren William
Robert Kirkwood

Lyle Talbot
Michael Loftus

Humphrey Bogart
Harve

Allen Jenkins
Dick

Edward Arnold
Ace

Hardie Albright
Phil
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Same mood
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