There's Always a Woman

There's Always a Woman

81 mins | Comedy, Mystery | April 20, 1938

An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.

There's Always a Woman

81 mins | Comedy, Mystery | April 20, 1938

There's Always a Woman
An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title There's Always a Woman
Directors Alexander Hall
Writers Wilson Collison, Gladys Lehman

Cast

Melvyn Douglas

as William H. Reardon

Joan Blondell

as Sally Reardon

Mary Astor

as Lola Fraser

Frances Drake

as Anne Calhoun

Jerome Cowan

as Nick Shane

Robert Paige

as Jerry Marlowe

Thurston Hall

as District Attorney

Pierre Watkin

as Mr. Ketterling

Walter Kingsford

as Grigson - Butler

Lester Matthews

as Walter Fraser

Bud Geary

as Assistant to District Attorney (uncredited)

Rita Hayworth

as Mary - Ketterling's Secretary (uncredited)

Robert Emmett Keane

as City Editor (uncredited)

Bert Moorhouse

as Skyline Club Dance Extra (uncredited)

Tom Dugan

as Detective Flannigan (uncredited)

Bud Jamison

as Jim - Bartender (uncredited)

Nell Craig

as District Attorney's Secretary

William Benedict

as Bellboy

John Gallaudet

as Reporter