Directed by:
Leigh JasonCinematography:
Franz PlanerCast:
Joan Blondell, Robert Benchley, Binnie Barnes, Janet Blair, John Howard, Hugh O'Connell, Frank McGlynn Sr., Eric Blore, Paul Harvey, Una O'Connor (more)Plots(1)
Faith, Hope and Charity motivate the wacky storyline of Columbia's Three Girls About Town--or to be more exact, gorgeous sisters Faith, Hope and Charity Banner, played respectively by Binnie Barnes, Joan Blondell and Janet Blair. Faith and Hope are gainfully employed as New York hotel hostesses, whose job it is to entertain wealthy out-of-town conventioneers (but no hanky panky, if you please!) They've remained in this profession in order to afford the expensive private-school education of their sister Charity, who shows up in the Big Apple in pursuit of her own career, or a wealthy husband, or both. Charity's arrival coincides with several big-time conventions, one of which is being covered by Faith's newspaper-reporter boyfriend Tommy Hopkins (John Howard). Things get dicey when the three girls discover a corpse in one of the hotel rooms. Certain that they'll be blamed for the death (or at the very least fired from their jobs!), the sisters conspire with Tommy to hide the body from the cops. Trouble is, the body just won't stay hidden, not even when our heroines try to dispose of the awkward stiff in one of the coffins brought into the hotel for an undertaker's convention. Blessed with a generous supply of belly-laughs and an unending stream of familiar character actors, Three Girls About Town sustains a proper level of zaniness right up to the cop-out finale. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Joan Blondell
USA
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Robert Benchley
USA
Best movies:
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Binnie Barnes
UK
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Janet Blair
USA
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John Howard
USA
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Hugh O'Connell
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Frank McGlynn Sr.
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Eric Blore
UK
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Paul Harvey
USA
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Una O'Connor
UK
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Dorothy Vaughan
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Alec Craig
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Joseph Crehan
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Larry Parks
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Lloyd Bridges
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Bert Roach
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Ray Walker
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Bess Flowers
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Harry Harvey
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