Answer: As far as I know, this is Lillie Mui, a young actress who just appeared in two films: TOO HOT TO HANDLE (1938) and BARRICADE (1939). This shot is taken from TOO HOT TO HANDLE, with Clark Gable as a newsreel reporter. Talk about "fake news" with some of this reporting! (Using a contemporary term for those times.) Everything is done for the newsreels, including setting up fictitious scenes. Nowadays newsreels are a thing of the past and unseen for decades at the local movie theater, but they were big back then.
I wasn't able to find anything about Mui, aside from a IMDB listing and a couple of cast mentions in newspaper archives. Her bit in the Gable film is most amusing.
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