Movie

Three Girls About Town

Released: October 23, 1941 (1941)

Runtime: 75 minutes

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

Frank McGlynn Sr. as Josephus Wiegal, senior mortician
Age at release: 74
Una O'Connor as Maggie O'Callahan, scrubwoman
Age at release: 61
Paul Harvey as Fred Chambers, editor
Age at release: 59
Eric Blore as Charlemagne, looking for Charlie
Age at release: 53
Robert Benchley as Wilburforce Puddle, hotel manager
Age at release: 52
Hugh O'Connell as Chief of Police
Age at release: 43
Binnie Barnes as Faith Banner
Age at release: 38
Joan Blondell as Hope Banner
Age at release: 35
John Howard as Tommy Hopkins
Age at release: 28
Janet Blair as Charity Banner
Age at release: 20

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Walter Soderling as Charlie, the deceased
Age at release: 69
Arthur Aylesworth as Poker Player
Age at release: 60
Joseph Crehan as Labor leader
Age at release: 58
Robert Emmett Keane as Casket-Selling Mortician
Age at release: 58
Alec Craig as Samuel, potential casket customer
Age at release: 57
Jessie Arnold as Clubwoman
Age at release: 56
Almira Sessions as Tessie Conarchy, scrubwoman
Age at release: 53
William B. Davidson as Labor Leader
Age at release: 53
Dorothy Vaughan as Mrs. McDougall, scrubwoman
Age at release: 50
Bert Roach as Advising Drunk
Age at release: 50
Eddie Dunn as Policeman Eddie
Age at release: 45
Bess Flowers as Mortician's Wife
Age at release: 42
Tim Ryan as Singing Drunk
Age at release: 42
Harry Harvey as Reporter
Age at release: 40
Barbara Brown as Clubwoman
Age at release: 40
Charles Lane as Mortician
Age at release: 36
Bruce Bennett as Reporter
Age at release: 35
Lloyd Bridges as Reporter
Age at release: 28
Harry Anderson as Head Porter
Age at release: 22
Eugene Anderson Jr as Newsboy
Age at release: 19