Bess Armstrong in This Girl For Hire (1983)

[Tish]

I don't know if have the right person, I'm sure I do. When I was little I watched this movie from 1983 called This Girl For Hire. It was about a woman who was a detective--but like those 40s style detective--and I'm sure it was Bess Armstrong cos that's the first time I heard that name or seen her in anything. Maybe some older viewers might remember. I know, like, I didn't dream this up. Does anyone know this movie? I saw it one afternoon on TV in 1988.

[Natasha (candygirl)]

According to imdb, that was Bess Armstrong in This Girl for Hire! The movie also starred Celeste Holm, Jose Ferrer, and Roddy McDowell.

In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in 1940s Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother Zandra, a washed-up actress, as well as Brady's live-in boyfriend Wolfe who runs a memorabilia shop.