Three Girls About Town
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| 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 |
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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.
[edit] Plot
Faith and Hope Banner are sisters who work as hostesses in a hotel. Their job is to entertain wealthy conventioneers. They are planning to stop after raising enough money to afford a private-school education for their little sister Charity, who wants to get a successful career and marry a wealthy man. Problems start when the three women find a corpse in one of the hotel rooms. They are convinced they will get the blame for the death of the body and decide to hide it. The problem is, that 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 Wiegal, 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
- Bess Flowers – Mortician's wife
