Blondie of the Follies is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film directed by Edmund Goulding and written by Anita Loos and Frances Marion.

[1][2] In a crowded New York tenement on the upper east side, Blondie and Lottie are neighbors and best friends.

Lottie joins the Follies, a burlesque show, escaping their noisy, crowded, poverty-stricken life with a Mr. Kinskey.

A great success in burlesque, she has changed her name to Lurline, speaks French to her maid and is being kept by wealthy Larry Belmont.

Blondie visits her in her elegant Park Avenue apartment, and Larry takes a fancy to the pretty blonde who is always laughing.

He backs off, and by the time he drives her home in the morning she is merrily intoxicated and he realizes there is something special about her.

Too naive to understand the whole situation, she confesses her attraction to Larry and is bewildered when the revelation shatters Lottie.

Then Blondie gets a phone call and rushes away from the chaos to go to a warehouse where her father has collapsed from a heart attack.

One night, while the show is running, Larry sends a messenger to tell Blondie to meet him at the speakeasy.

When Lottie lets go of her hand during a crack the whip production number, Blondie is thrown into the orchestra pit.