Three Girls About Town
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Leigh Jason
Casts & Crew
Joan Blondell
Binnie Barnes
Janet Blair
Robert Benchley
John Howard
Hugh O'Connell
Frank McGlynn Sr.
Eric Blore
Paul Harvey
Una O'Connor
Almira Sessions
Dorothy Vaughan
Walter Soderling
Alec Craig
Joseph Crehan
Charles Lane
Bess Flowers
William B. Davidson
Eddie Dunn
Harry Harvey
Robert Emmett Keane
Bert Roach
Tim Ryan
Eugene Anderson Jr
Harry Anderson
Jessie Arnold
Arthur Aylesworth
Bruce Bennett
Lloyd Bridges
Barbara Brown
Nora Cecil
Ken Christy
Chester Clute
Monte Collins
Hal K. Dawson
Lester Dorr
Alan Edwards
Sarah Edwards
Dick Elliott
Franklyn Farnum
Patricia Farr
John Farrell
Dink Freeman
Frank Gaby
Harrison Greene
Charles Halton
George Hickman
Sheldon Jett
Eddie Laughton
Vera Lewis
Arthur Loft
William Newell
Larry Parks
Minna Phillips
Cyril Ring
Harry Seymour
Grady Sutton
Ben Taggart
Ferris Taylor
John Tyrrell
Ray Walker
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