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Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.
23 Cast Members
Claude Rains
Lee Gentry
Margo
Carmen Brown
Whitney Bourne
Katy Costello
Stanley Ridges
Eddie White
Leslie Adams
State's Attorney O'Brien
Dorothy Bradshaw
Jury Member (uncredited)
Fanny Brice
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Jack Carr
Defendant (uncredited)
Esther Dale
Miss Keeley (uncredited)
Fraye Gilbert
Jury Member (uncredited)
Greta Granstedt
Della (uncredited)
Helen Hayes
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
Ben Hecht
Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)
Charles Anthony Hughes
Man (uncredited)
Charles Kennedy
Police Lt. Norton (uncredited)
Charles MacArthur
Second Interviewer (uncredited)
Cornelius MacSunday
Gentry's Butler (uncredited)
Marjorie Main
Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
Marion Martin
Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
Fuller Mellish
Judge (uncredited)
