Three Girls About Town (1941)
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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,… More 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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Leigh Jason
- Genres
- Action & Adventure, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 23, 1941 Wide
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Though well-acted, it's one of George Cukor's earlier, lesser efforts
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Cast
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Joan Blondell
as Hope Banner
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Binnie Barnes
as Faith Banner
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Janet Blair
as Charity Banner
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John Howard
as Tommy Hopkins
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Robert Benchley
as Wilburforse Paddle
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Eric Blore
as Charlemagne
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Hugh O'Connell
as Chief of Police
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Una O'Connor
as Maggie O'Callahan
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Almira Sessions
as Tessie Conarchy
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Dorothy Vaughan
as Mrs. McDougall
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Paul Harvey
as Fred Chambers
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Frank McGlynn Sr.
as Josephus Wiegal
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Walter Soderling
as Charlie
- Jessie Arnold
- Arthur Ayleswofth
- Lloyd Bridges
- Bruce Bennett
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Barbara Brown
as Clubwoman
- Chester Clute
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Alec Craig
as Samuel
- William B. Davidson
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Lester Dorr
as Reporter
- Sarah Edwards
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Dick Elliott
as Magician
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Bess Flowers
as Mortician's Wife
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Harrison Greene
as Poker Player
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George Hickman
as Bellhop
- Eddie Laughton
- Vera Lewis
- Arthur Loft
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William Newell
as Laundry Man
- Larry Parks
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Minna Phillips
as Martha
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Ben Taggart
as Doorman
- John Tyrrell
- Ray Walker
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Charles Lane
as Mortician
