Murder at the Vanities

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Murder at the Vanities

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Mystery

Comedy

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.

Date: 05/18/1934

Rating: 5.5

Cast: Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Dorothy Stickney, Gertrude Michael, Jessie Ralph, Charles Middleton, Gail Patrick, Donald Meek, Toby Wing, Duke Ellington, Wanda Perry, Lucille Ball, Ann Sheridan, Alan Ladd, Lona Andre, William Arnold, Betty Bethune, Stanley Blystone, Virginia Davis, Dorothy Dawes, Barbara Fritchie, Gwenllian Gill, Mary Gordon, Mildred Gover, Beatrice Hagen, Ruth Hilliard, Otto Hoffman, Iris Lancaster, Charles McAvoy, Howard M. Mitchell, Juanita Moore, Dave O'Brien, Dennis O'Keefe, Laurie Shevlin, Teru Shimada, Gwynne Shipman, Frank Sully, Colin Tapley, Beryl Wallace, Cecil Weston, Vivian Wilson, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Ernestine Anderson, Lucille Battle, Mildred Boyd, Lenora Brown, Marion Callahan, Nancy Caswell, Marguerite Caverley, Juanita Clay, Paige Crane, Roy Crane, Helen Curtis, Mae Digges, Mike Donovan, Winnie Flint, Mary Flynn, Norah Gale, Zumetta Garnett, Catherine Grayson, Cleo Herndon, Shep Houghton, Inez Howard, Billie Huber, Diane Hunter, Patsy Hunter, Constance Jordan, Evelyn Kelly, Alyce Key, The King's Men, Patsy King, Mitchell Leisen, Rosalie Lincoln, Blanche McDonald, Leda Nicova, Ted Oliver, Esther Pressman, Arthur Rankin, Hazel Reese, Rita Rober, Ruth Scott, Honey Smith, Carolynne Snowden, Anya Taranda, Frances Turham, Flora Washington, Dorothy White, Dot Williams, Gladys Young, Hal Greene

Carl Brisson