
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
Cast

William Wright
Philo Vance

Vivian Austin
Lorena Blendon Simms

Leon Belasco
Alexis Karnoff

Clara Blandick
Stella Blendon

Ramsay Ames
Virginia Berneaux

Damian O'Flynn
Larry Blendon

Frank Wilcox
George Hullman

Iris Adrian
Maggie McCarthy / Choo-Choo Divine
Ann Staunton
Helen Varney Blendon

Tim Murdock
The Policeman

Mary Scott
Mary

Wade Crosby
Choo-Choo's Bodyguard (Uncredited)

Eddie Dunn
Police Lieutenant Mullard (Uncredited)

Broderick O'Farrell
Dr. Campbell (Uncredited)
Phyllis Planchard
Agatha Cowle (Uncredited)
Cy Stevens
Greg Simms (Uncredited)
Crew

William Beaudine
Director
Robert E. Kent
Screenplay
Gene Fowler Jr.
Editor
Jackson Rose
Director of Photography
William Beaudine Jr.
Second Assistant Director
Emmett Emerson
Assistant Director

Howard W. Koch
Assistant Director
Howard Welsch
Producer
Dorothy Drake
Wardrobe Supervisor
Eunice King
Hairstylist

Bud Westmore
Makeup Department Head
J.N.A. Hawkins
Sound Director
Percy Townsend
Sound Mixer
George J. Teague
Special Effects
Albert Glasser
Original Music Composer
Irving Friedman
Music Director
William Kernell
Dialogue Editor
Armor Marlowe
Set Decoration

S.S. Van Dine
Characters
Alfred DeGaetano
Supervising Editor
Perry Smith
Art Direction
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