Let "Havana Widows" rest there." Home media Unfortunately, Miss Blondell loses her heart to the victim's handsome son. Kibbee to be found en déshabillé in a hotel room. The Misses Blondell and Farrell, down on their luck and badly in need of a grub-stake, arrange with Mr. Kibbee is the subject of the extortion scheme in which almost the whole cast is involved. The new film is an aimless attempt to wring some new humors out of the breach-of-promise racket. They are amusing and likable players they deserve a better fate than comedies like "Havana Widows". Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell, as the flip and caustic sisters of the chorus Guy Kibbee, as the thick-skulled business man with a confused ambition to see life Allen Jenkins, as the dead-pan gangster Frank McHugh, as the perennial drunk who can slant in several directions at once Ruth Donnelly, as the prim wife out of tank-town burlesque-they are staple commodities. The New York Times movie review said: "It is still possible to enjoy the old reliables in a mild way. Glenda Farrell and Joan Blondell in Havana Widows (1933) Bob decides to get a job in New York and marry Mae, and Sadie marries Herman. Butch finds Herman, but he only wants him to return to work because his luck has been bad ever since Herman left. Duffy has Deacon kidnapped, but he resists the attempt to frame him. Duffy talks him into playing Mae's outraged husband. When he tries to track Sadie and Mae down, he learns that they are not in Kansas. Panicking, Herman goes to see Otis, only to discover that he has lost his job and left town. Meanwhile, the bank calls to verify the forged check. Their alcoholic lawyer, Duffy (Frank McHugh), advises them to trap Deacon in a scandalous situation and blackmail him instead. When Mae and Sadie encounter Deacon's wife, they realize that a marriage proposal from him is out of the question. However, Mae is smitten with Deacon's handsome son Bob (Lyle Talbot), but finds out that Bob has no money of his own. Jones (Guy Kibbee), a wealthy horse breeder who cannot afford a scandal, in their bed by mistake. They think they have it made when they find Deacon R. In Havana, Sadie and Mae pretend to be rich widows. Herman insures Mae's life, with him as the beneficiary.
Insurance salesman Otis needs one more sale to get a $5000 bonus, so he offers Herman $1500 to buy a policy. Unfortunately, Herman loses the money gambling (in Butch's own casino). Herman does not have the money himself, but convinces his boss, Butch O'Neill, to loan it to him. Pretending that Mae's mother in Kansas is sick, they get Herman Brody (Allen Jenkins) to promise to lend them $1500. Sadie decides they will follow her example. Mae Knight (Joan Blondell) and Sadie Appleby (Glenda Farrell), chorus line dancers in a New York City burlesque show, are visited by a former showgirl acquaintance (an uncredited Noel Francis) who received a rich settlement for breach of promise from a married man she met in Havana.
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