Bedtime Story

Bedtime Story

85 mins | Comedy, Romance | Dec. 25, 1941

A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there

Bedtime Story

85 mins | Comedy, Romance | Dec. 25, 1941

Bedtime Story
A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Columbia Pictures, B.P. Schulberg Productions
Original title Bedtime Story
Directors Alexander Hall
Writers Horace Jackson, Richard Flournoy, Grant Garett

Cast

Fredric March

as Luke Drake

Loretta Young

as Jane Drake

Robert Benchley

as Eddie Turner

Allyn Joslyn

as William Dudley

Eve Arden

as Virginia Cole

Helen Westley

as Emma Harper

Joyce Compton

as Beulah

Tim Ryan

as Mac

Olaf Hytten

as Alfred

Dorothy Adams

as Betsy

Clarence Kolb

as Collins

Andrew Tombes

as Pierce

Spencer Charters

as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)

James Flavin

as Hotel Guest in Room 625 (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

as First Hotel Clerk (uncredited)