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"Startling in Mystery and Laughs!"
A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to create his next book. They soon find themselves in the middle of a real-life mystery when a corpse turns up in their apartment.
39 Cast Members
Loretta Young
Nancy Troy
Brian Aherne
Jeff Troy
Jeff Donnell
Anne Carstairs
William Wright
Scott Carstairs
Sidney Toler
Inspector Hankins
Gale Sondergaard
Mrs. Devoe
Donald MacBride
Bolling
Lee Patrick
Polly Franklin
Don Costello
Eddie Turner
Richard Gaines
Lingle
Frank Baker
Minor Role (uncredited)
William Benedict
Messenger Boy (uncredited)
James Burke
Pat Murphy (uncredited)
George Chandler
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Ralph Curly
Detective (uncredited)
John Dilson
Medical Examiner (uncredited)
Eddie Dunn
Matthews (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
Henderson (uncredited)
Jimmie Fox
Chuck, Second Mover (uncredited)
Harry Harvey
Taxi Driver (uncredited)
