Curtain at Eight (1933)
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
Director:
E. Mason Hopper
Writer:
Edward T. Lowe Jr.
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C. Aubrey Smith as Detective Jim Hanley |
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Sam Hardy as Capt. Martin Gallagher |
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Russell Hopton as Reporter Mooney |
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Ruthelma Stevens as Doris Manning |
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Hale Hamilton as J.K. Manning |
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Jack Mulhall as Carey Weldon |
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Dorothy Mackaill as Lola Cresmer |
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Syd Saylor as Mac MacIntosh, the prop man |
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Paul Cavanagh as Wylie Thornton |
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Natalie Moorhead as Alma Jenkins Thornton |
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Marion Shilling as Anice Cresmer |
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William Humphrey as Allison, addled actor |
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Herman Bing as Sam, stage director |
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Dot Farley as Ella, hefty actress |
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Arthur Hoyt as Watkins, theater watchman |
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Matthew Betz as "Lovely" Holmes |
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Walter Brennan as Backstage Detective [extra] |
| Directing | E. Mason Hopper | Director |
| Writing | Edward T. Lowe Jr. | Screenplay |
| Art | Ralph Oberg | Art Direction |
| Production | Phil Goldstone | Producer |
| Camera | Ira H. Morgan | Director of Photography |
