Crime Without Passion (1934)
Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.
Directors:
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Lee Garmes.
Writers:
Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur.
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Claude Rains as Lee Gentry |
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Margo as Carmen Brown |
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Whitney Bourne as Katy Costello |
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Stanley Ridges as Eddie White |
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Leslie Adams as State's Attorney O'Brien |
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Dorothy Bradshaw as Jury Member (uncredited) |
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Fanny Brice as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited) |
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Jack Carr as Defendant (uncredited) |
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Esther Dale as Miss Keeley (uncredited) |
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Fraye Gilbert as Jury Member (uncredited) |
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Greta Granstedt as Della (uncredited) |
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Helen Hayes as Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited) |
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Ben Hecht as Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited) |
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Charles Anthony Hughes as Man (uncredited) |
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Charles Kennedy as Police Lt. Norton (uncredited) |
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Charles MacArthur as Second Interviewer (uncredited) |
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Cornelius MacSunday as Gentry's Butler (uncredited) |
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Marjorie Main as Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited) |
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Marion Martin as Theatre Cashier (uncredited) |
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Fuller Mellish as Judge (uncredited) |
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Betty Real as Waitress Slapping Lee Gentry (uncredited) |
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Betty Sundmark as Jury Member (uncredited) |
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Paula Trueman as Buster Malloy (uncredited) |
| Writing | Ben Hecht | Screenplay |
| Directing | Ben Hecht | Director |
| Directing | Charles MacArthur | Director |
| Crew | Oscar Levant | Additional Music |
| Camera | Lee Garmes | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Arthur Ellis | Editor |
| Sound | Frank Tours | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Lee Garmes | Director |
| Editing | Slavko Vorkapich | Editorial Services |
| Sound | Joseph I. Kane | Sound Recordist |
| Crew | Slavko Vorkapich | Special Effects |
| Writing | Charles MacArthur | Screenplay |
| Art | Albert Johnson | Set Decoration |
| Production | Ben Hecht | Producer |
| Production | Charles MacArthur | Producer |
| Sound | Frank Tours | Music Arranger |
| Production | Arthur Rosson | General Manager |
| Crew | Mickey King | Choreographer |
| Crew | Leslie Bain | Special Effects |
| Writing | Ben Hecht | Story |
| Writing | James L. Shute | Writers' Assistant |