Three Girls About Town

Three Girls About Town

75 mins | Comedy, Adventure | Oct. 23, 1941

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.

Three Girls About Town

75 mins | Comedy, Adventure | Oct. 23, 1941

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.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Columbia Pictures
Original title Three Girls About Town
Directors Leigh Jason
Writers Richard Carroll

Cast

Joan Blondell

as Hope Banner

Binnie Barnes

as Faith Banner

Janet Blair

as Charity Banner

Robert Benchley

as Wilburforce Puddle, hotel manager

John Howard

as Tommy Hopkins

Hugh O'Connell

as Chief of Police

Frank McGlynn Sr.

as Josephus Wiegal, senior mortician

Eric Blore

as Charlemagne, looking for Charlie

Paul Harvey

as Fred Chambers, editor

Una O'Connor

as Maggie O'Callahan, scrubwoman

Almira Sessions

as Tessie Conarchy, scrubwoman

Dorothy Vaughan

as Mrs. McDougall, scrubwoman

Walter Soderling

as Charlie, the deceased

Alec Craig

as Samuel, potential casket customer

Joseph Crehan

as Labor leader

Charles Lane

as Mortician

Bess Flowers

as Mortician's Wife

William B. Davidson

as Labor Leader

Eddie Dunn

as Policeman Eddie

Harry Harvey

as Reporter

Robert Emmett Keane

as Casket-Selling Mortician

Bert Roach

as Advising Drunk

Tim Ryan

as Singing Drunk

Eugene Anderson Jr

as Newsboy

Harry Anderson

as Head Porter

Jessie Arnold

as Clubwoman

Arthur Aylesworth

as Poker Player

Bruce Bennett

as Reporter

Lloyd Bridges

as Reporter

Barbara Brown

as Clubwoman

Nora Cecil

as Casket Customer

Ken Christy

as Union Man

Chester Clute

as Frank - Magician

Monte Collins

as Tipsy Poker Player

Hal K. Dawson

as Guest

Lester Dorr

as Reporter

Alan Edwards

as Guest

Sarah Edwards

as Clubwoman

Dick Elliott

as Magician Boarding Bus

Franklyn Farnum

as Conventioneer Extra

Patricia Farr

as Telephone Operator

John Farrell

as Drunk

Dink Freeman

as Delivery Man

Frank Gaby

as Magician

Harrison Greene

as Poker Player

Charles Halton

as Doc - Coroner

George Hickman

as Bellhop

Sheldon Jett

as Hotel Extra

Eddie Laughton

as Magician

Vera Lewis

as Clubwoman

Arthur Loft

as Poker Player

William Newell

as Laundry Man

Larry Parks

as Reporter

Minna Phillips

as Martha

Cyril Ring

as Extra at Labor Meeting

Harry Seymour

as Banker

Grady Sutton

as Meeting Doorman

Ben Taggart

as Doorman

Ferris Taylor

as Magician

John Tyrrell

as Reporter

Ray Walker

as Reporter on Telephone