{"id":16429,"date":"2025-11-26T16:24:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=16429"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:24:57","slug":"walk-of-fame-movies-jewel-robbery-and-helen-vinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/26\/walk-of-fame-movies-jewel-robbery-and-helen-vinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movies: Jewel Robbery and Helen Vinson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jewel-Robbery-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kay Francis and William Powell in Jewel Robbery.\" class=\"wp-image-16432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jewel-Robbery-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jewel-Robbery-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jewel-Robbery-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jewel-robbery-2.jpg\" alt=\"William Powell and Kay Francis in Jewel Robbery.\" class=\"wp-image-16433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jewel-robbery-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jewel-robbery-2-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jewel-robbery-2-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some clues that this is a pre-Code film:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The first scene is two scantily clad women talking about cheating on their husbands.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Two men are openly pursuing one of the married women.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>One of the men is a charming jewel thief, and the woman is into it big time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The thief casually hands out weed, and it gets smoked.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All law enforcement is either inept or corrupt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and of course the thief gets away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/helen-vinson.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Helen Vinson's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the right, a black and white portrait photo of Helen Vinson.\" class=\"wp-image-16434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/helen-vinson.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/helen-vinson-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/helen-vinson-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This was Helen Vinson&#8217;s first movie role. She acted for a dozen or so years before retiring. Her star is at 1560 Vine Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s poster is based on a very similar film about police corruption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jewel-robbery-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for Jewel Robbery mimicking the poster for Serpico.\" class=\"wp-image-16431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jewel-robbery-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jewel-robbery-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jewel-robbery-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/jewel-robbery.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure he robs you, but also gives you great weed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[350,357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-16429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-fake-posters","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16462,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429\/revisions\/16462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}