Cinematography:
Charles G. ClarkeComposer:
David ButtolphCast:
Ned Sparks, Marjorie Weaver, Ted North, Joan Davis, Pierre Watkin, Richard Lane, Lotus Long, Lois Wilson, Tully Marshall, Phyllis Fraser, Isabel Jewell (more)Plots(1)
A woman-hating astronomy professor, Bertram Dillsome, inherits a swank beauty salon in a New York hotel from his aunt. His New York arrival beings an unexpected fanfare of publicity arranged by Diane "Dime" Pringle, who had met and fallen in love with Bertram at a college lecture, and has convinced her father, Julius H. Pringle, to allow his press agent, sour-puss Jonathan Sweet, to handle Bertram's publicity. The beauty shop is soon deluged with clients until actress Amy Devore hits it with a fraudulent suit for infecting her face. Bertram finds a recording made by his aunt before her death that hints at mysterious happenings at the salon, involving a Mrs. Kennar. Suspecting that his aunt had been murdered, Bertram and Dime call Mrs. Kennar to the salon but, before they see her, Ann Kuo, a Chinese attendant at the salon, and Rodney Blynn, confront her and she leaps from the window to her death. Amy tells Bertram she will not press her suit if he will allow her to take over the salon but he turns her down over the objections of his attorney Middlesex. Dottie Nickerson, a trusted employee at the salon, sees Kuo steal some letters from a customer's purse and hears her telephone Blynn. Sweet has been attacked by a mysterious assailant and Dottie visits him in the hospital and tells him what she observed. He wants to visit Blynn's apartment, but Dottie hides his trousers. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ned Sparks
Canada
Best movies:
The Canary Murder Case (1929)
Lady for a Day (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Marjorie Weaver
USA
Best movies:
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
We're Not Married! (1952)
Ted North
USA
Best movies:
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1942)
The Unsuspected (1947)
Joan Davis
USA
Best movies:
Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
Day-Time Wife (1939)
Pierre Watkin
USA
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Richard Lane
USA
Best movies:
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Union Pacific (1939)
Lotus Long
USA
Best movies:
Flying Tigers (1942)
The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934)
Lois Wilson
USA
Best movies:
Bella Donna (1923)
Tully Marshall
USA
Best movies:
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
Scarface (1932)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
Phyllis Fraser
USA
Best movies:
Vivacious Lady (1938)
The Black Room (1935)
Isabel Jewell
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Counsellor at Law (1933)
Janet Beecher
USA
Best movies:
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Nigel De Brulier
UK
Best movies:
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Wings (1927)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Margaret Dumont
USA
Best movies:
A Night at the Opera (1935)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Cliff Clark
USA
Best movies:
The Stratton Story (1949)
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Cyril Ring
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Edison, the Man (1940)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Jean Brooks
USA
Best movies:
Two O'Clock Courage (1945)
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
Lelah Tyler
USA
Best movies:
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Olaf Hytten
UK
Best movies:
The Good Earth (1937)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Casablanca (1942)
Mae Marsh
USA
Best movies:
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Bernadette (1943)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)