Bedtime Story (1941)
Bedtime Story (1941)
MEN...I'LL BET YOU TELL THIS ONE TO ALL THE GIRLS!
A Braodway 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

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Cast

Fredric March Fredric March As: Luke Drake
Loretta Young Loretta Young As: Jane Drake
Robert Benchley Robert Benchley As: Eddie Turner
Allyn Joslyn Allyn Joslyn As: William Dudley
Eve Arden Eve Arden As: Virginia Cole
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Storyline

A Braodway 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


Tagline: MEN...I'LL BET YOU TELL THIS ONE TO ALL THE GIRLS!
Certification: NR

Details

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Language: English

Release Date: 25 December 1941

Country: US

Runtime: 85m

Company Credits

Company: B.P. Schulberg Productions, Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Fredric March

Fredric March

Luke Drake

Loretta Young

Loretta Young

Jane Drake

Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley

Eddie Turner

Allyn Joslyn

Allyn Joslyn

William Dudley

Eve Arden

Eve Arden

Virginia Cole

Helen Westley

Helen Westley

Emma Harper

Joyce Compton

Joyce Compton

Beulah

Tim Ryan

Tim Ryan

Mac

Olaf Hytten

Olaf Hytten

Alfred

Dorothy Adams

Dorothy Adams

Betsy

Clarence Kolb

Clarence Kolb

Collins

Andrew Tombes

Andrew Tombes

Pierce

Spencer Charters

Spencer Charters

Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)

James Flavin

James Flavin

Hotel Guest in Room 625 (uncredited)

Byron Foulger

Byron Foulger

First Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

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Sound

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Visual Effects

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Camera

Joseph Walker

Joseph Walker

Director of Photography

Lighting

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Art Department

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Other Crew

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