Three Girls About Town
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| Directed by | Leigh Jason |
| Produced by | Samuel Bischoff |
| Written by | Richard Carroll |
| Starring | Joan Blondell Binnie Barnes Janet Blair |
| Cinematography | Franz Planer |
| Editing by | Charles Nelson |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | October 23, 1941 |
| Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Three Girls About Town is a 1941 Columbia comedy film directed by Leigh Jason. The story is written by Richard Carroll and stars Joan Blondell, Binnie Barnes and Janet Blair (in her film debut).
[edit] Plot
Faith and Hope Banner are sisters who work as hostesses in a New York hotel; their job is to entertain conventioneers. They work primarily to pay for a private-school education for their little sister Charity, who wants to have a successful career and marry a wealthy man. Problems begin when Charity turns up, having run away from school, and continue as the hotel is overrun with magicians, undertakers and aircraft workers threatening to go on strike. To make matters worse, a corpse turns up in one of the hotel rooms. Convinced they will get the blame for the death--and worried that Hope's reporter fiancee Tommy will try to make a big scoop out of it--they try to hide it. The problem: the body won't stay hidden.
[edit] Cast
- Joan Blondell – Hope Banner
- Binnie Barnes – Faith Banner
- Janet Blair – Charity Banner
- John Howard – Tommy Hopkins
- Robert Benchley – Wilburforce Puddle, hotel manager
- Hugh O'Connell – Chief of police
- Frank McGlynn Sr. – Josephus Wiegel, senior mortician
- Eric Blore – Charlemagne, looking for Charlie
- Paul Harvey – Fred Chambers, editor
- Una O'Connor – Maggie O'Callahan, scrubwoman
- Almira Sessions – Tessie Conarchy, scrubwoman
- Dorothy Vaughan – Mrs. McDougall, scrubwoman
- Charles Lane – Mortician
- Bess Flowers – Mortician's wife
