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Bedtime Story
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Bedtime Story

1941-12-25 · 85 min · ★ 5.8

Comedy · Romance

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

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Directors
Alexander Hall
Production companies
B.P. Schulberg Productions, Columbia Pictures
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released

Top Cast

Fredric MarchFredric MarchLuke Drake
Loretta YoungLoretta YoungJane Drake
Robert BenchleyRobert BenchleyEddie Turner
Allyn JoslynAllyn JoslynWilliam Dudley
Eve ArdenEve ArdenVirginia Cole
Helen WestleyHelen WestleyEmma Harper
Joyce ComptonJoyce ComptonBeulah
Tim RyanTim RyanMac
Olaf HyttenOlaf HyttenAlfred
Dorothy AdamsDorothy AdamsBetsy
Clarence KolbClarence KolbCollins
Andrew TombesAndrew TombesPierce
Spencer ChartersSpencer ChartersGas Station Attendant (uncredited)
James FlavinJames FlavinHotel Guest in Room 625 (uncredited)
Byron FoulgerByron FoulgerFirst Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

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