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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