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Murder at the Vanities (1934)
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Overview
Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll’s Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate. Bill thinks Jack is offering to let him see the show from an unusual viewpoint after he forgot to get him tickets for the performance, but then they find the corpse of a murdered woman and Bill immediately suspects Eric of the crime.
Rated NR | Length 89 minutes
Actors
Carl Brisson | Victor McLaglen | Jack Oakie | Kitty Carlisle | Dorothy Stickney | Gertrude Michael | Jessie Ralph | Charles Middleton | Gail Patrick | Donald Meek | Toby Wing | Duke Ellington | Wanda Perry | Lucille Ball | Ann Sheridan | Alan Ladd | Lona Andre | William Arnold | Betty Bethune | Stanley Blystone | Virginia Davis | Dorothy Dawes | Barbara Fritchie | Gwenllian Gill | Mary Gordon | Mildred Gover | Beatrice Hagen | Ruth Hilliard | Otto Hoffman | Iris Lancaster | Charles McAvoy | Howard M. Mitchell | Juanita Moore | Dave O'Brien | Dennis O'Keefe | Laurie Shevlin | Teru Shimada | Gwynne Shipman | Frank Sully | Colin Tapley | Beryl Wallace | Cecil Weston | Vivian Wilson