Movie: Bedtime Story

Top 10 Billed 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

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    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

  • Release Date

    1941-12-25

  • Average

    5.813

  • Rating:

    2.9 starts
  • Tagline

    MEN...I'LL BET YOU TELL THIS ONE TO ALL THE GIRLS!

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    English
  • Keywords

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