The Bamboo Blonde is a 1946 American romantic comedy directed by Anthony Mann based on an original story "Chicago Lulu" by Wayne Whittaker. A low budget production, it stars singer Frances Langford in the title role, Ralph Edwards – from TV's This Is Your Life – and Russell Wade, usually a bit player. As an RKO star, Langford was famous for her role in entertaining the troops in World War II, and the film features a number of songs that her character sings at a nightclub and war bond rallies across the nation. Plot A reporter is interviewing businessman Eddie Clark (Ralph Edwards) on the backstory behind his conglomerate of companies branded the alluring "Bamboo Blonde". During World War II, young Captain Patrick Ransom, Jr. (Russell Wade), an experienced private recreational pilot, has just been commissioned and given command of a B-29, bomber. Seeking to meet up with his veteran aircrew for the first time before shipping out together the next morning to the Pacific, he is first ditched by the unimpressed and wily bunch, which misdirects him to a declasse New York nightclub, then snubbed by his elitist fiancée, socialite Eileen Sawyer (Jane Greer), who refuses to accompany him there. Determined to meet up with his new aircrew, he persists on his own, only to cluelessly end up at a nightspot owned by Clark that is out-of-bounds to military personnel. Before he realizes this, or is apprehended by M.P.s, Ransom sees beautiful blonde singer Louise Anderson (Frances Langford). Overwhelmed, he impetuously falls in love her. When he later passionately kisses the curvy torch singer goodbye his crew mistakenly imagines he's a playboy and dubs him the Air Corps' greatest wolf. Out in the Pacific, Ransom's plane and crew run into a prolonged stretch of bad luck. Trying to shake it, one of the them paints a risque image of the singer on the nose of their bomber. At first, both embarrassed and put off, Captain Ransom relents and allows what becomes dubbed "the Bamboo Blonde" to stay. The plane and crew go on to become famous, without Ransom ever letting on that the blonde bombshell is not "his girl". Seeking to capitalize on their fame, the Air Corps decides to bring the "Bamboo Blonde" and its crew back home to front a national war bond drive. Clark immediately dreams up ways to exploit his singer's connection to the famous