Weekend for Three (Week-End for Three) (1941)
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Boasting a script cowritten by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell from a story by Budd Schulberg, Weekend for Three should have been a comedy classic-but alas, it isn't. Over the protests of her husband Jim (Dennis O'Keefe), Ellen Craig (Jane Wyatt) invites her old friend Randy (Dennis… More Boasting a script cowritten by Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell from a story by Budd Schulberg, Weekend for Three should have been a comedy classic-but alas, it isn't. Over the protests of her husband Jim (Dennis O'Keefe), Ellen Craig (Jane Wyatt) invites her old friend Randy (Dennis O'Keefe) to dinner. Jim endures Randy's phony effusiveness and loud, braying laughter only because he's certain that the jerk will go home soon. Instead, Randy invites himself to the Craig household for the weekend-and shows no signs of ever wanting to leave! More of an anecdote than a story, Weekend for Three is just too thin to be stretched over 61 minutes: it might have worked better as an Edgar Kennedy or Leon Errol 2-reeler. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Irving Reis
- Genres
- Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Dec 12, 1941 Wide
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Cast
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Dennis O'Keefe
as Jim Craig
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Jane Wyatt
as Ellen Craig
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Phillip Reed
as Randy Bloodworth
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Edward Everett Horton
as Fred Stonebraker
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Zasu Pitts
as Anna
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Franklin Pangborn
as No. Seven
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Marion Martin
as Mrs. Weatherby
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Hans Conried
as Desk Clerk
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Mady Lawrence
as Miss Bailey
