Bedtime Story (1941)
A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
Director:
Alexander Hall
Writer:
Richard Flournoy
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Fredric March as Luke Drake |
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Loretta Young as Jane Drake |
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Robert Benchley as Eddie Turner |
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Allyn Joslyn as William Dudley |
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Eve Arden as Virginia Cole |
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Helen Westley as Emma Harper |
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Joyce Compton as Beulah |
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Tim Ryan as Mac |
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Olaf Hytten as Alfred |
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Dorothy Adams as Betsy |
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Clarence Kolb as Collins |
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Andrew Tombes as Pierce |
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Spencer Charters as Gas Station Attendant (uncredited) |
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James Flavin as Hotel Guest in Room 625 (uncredited) |
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Byron Foulger as First Hotel Clerk (uncredited) |
| Writing | Grant Garett | Story |
| Writing | Horace Jackson | Story |
| Directing | Alexander Hall | Director |
| Writing | Richard Flournoy | Screenplay |
| Editing | Viola Lawrence | Editor |
| Camera | Joseph Walker | Director of Photography |