Brooklyn Orchid

Brooklyn Orchid is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Kurt Neumann and written by Earle Snell and Clarence Marks that was one of Hal Roach's Streamliners.

The film stars William Bendix, Joe Sawyer, Marjorie Woodworth, Grace Bradley, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Florine McKinney and Leonid Kinskey.

[1][2][3] This was the first of the so-called Taxi Comedies series, which featured Bendix, Sawyer, and Bradley playing the same characters.

A couple of cab drivers, Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett, cope with the women in their lives.

Lucy Gibbs turns out to be the winner of the "Brooklyn Orchid" beauty pageant, but rather than be pleased, she's actually making a suicide attempt over its adverse effect on her life.