Murder at the Vanities
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack if offering to let him see the show from an unusual view point, after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered women and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
Mitchell Leisen
Casts & Crew
Carl Brisson
Victor McLaglen
Jack Oakie
Kitty Carlisle
Dorothy Stickney
Gertrude Michael
Jessie Ralph
Charles Middleton
Gail Patrick
Donald Meek
Toby Wing
Duke Ellington
Betty Bethune
Stanley Blystone
Mike Donovan
William Arnold
Arthur Rankin
Colin Tapley
Roy Crane
Alan Ladd
Dave O'Brien
Dennis O'Keefe
Frank Sully
Shep Houghton
Ann Sheridan
Lona Andre
Beryl Wallace
Gwenllian Gill
Lucille Ball
Helen Curtis
Ernestine Anderson
Marion Callahan
Nancy Caswell
Virginia Davis
Dorothy Dawes
Winnie Flint
Barbara Fritchie
Norah Gale
Juanita Clay
Zumetta Garnett
Billie Huber
Inez Howard
Diane Hunter
Constance Jordan
Ruth Hilliard
Wanda Perry
Patsy King
Iris Lancaster
Laurie Shevlin
Leda Nicova
Dorothy White
Evelyn Kelly
Gwynne Shipman
Anya Taranda
Gladys Young
Rita Rober
Esther Pressman
Lucille Battle
Gladys Henderson
Cleo Herndon
Mildred Boyd
Ruth Scott
Carolynne Snowden
Mary Gordon
Mildred Gover
Otto Hoffman
Hal Greene
Mitchell Leisen
Charles McAvoy
Howard M. Mitchell
Ted Oliver
Teru Shimada
Cecil Weston
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