Fog Over Frisco

Fog Over Frisco is a 1934 American drama film directed by William Dieterle. The screenplay by Robert N. Lee and Eugene Solow was based on the short story The Five Fragments by George Dyer.

When Arlene disappears, her sister Val Margaret Lindsay steps in to discover what happened to her with the help of society reporter Tony Sterling Donald Woods and photojournalist Izzy Wright Hugh Herbert.Bette Davis, anxious to portray the slatternly waitress Mildred in the RKO Radio Pictures production Of Human Bondage, accepted the relatively small role of Arlene in the hope her cooperation would convince Jack L. Warner to lend her to the rival studio for the film. Her ploy worked, and when Warner received word about her dynamic performance in Bondage, he elevated her to top billing in Frisco. ........

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