The Strawberry Blonde

James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland and Rita Hayworth sparkle in this comedy about a man who wonders if he should have married his wife or his former girlfriend, The Strawberry Blonde.One Sunday afternoon at the turn of the 20th century, Hugo Barnstead (Jack Carson) walks into the office of dentist Biff Grimes (Academy Award winner Cagney--Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Roaring Twenties). Hugo doesn't suspect that Biff--with good reason--intends to murder him. Biff's memory wanders back to the events years before when his partner, Hugo, set him up for a prison term then married his girlfriend, Virginia Brush (Hayworth--Gilda, Pal Joey). But as Biff imagines what his life would have been were he married to Virginia, he realizes that he is much happier wed to Amy (Academy Award winner de Havilland--Gone with the Wind, The Adventures of Robin Hood) and lets his intended victim leave with nothing more than a very sore jaw.