Curtain at Eight
5.9
68 minutes
10/1/1933
Overview
An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?
Cast List
C. Aubrey Smith
as Detective Jim Hanley
Sam Hardy
as Capt. Martin Gallagher
Russell Hopton
as Reporter Mooney
Ruthelma Stevens
as Doris Manning
Hale Hamilton
as J.K. Manning
Jack Mulhall
as Carey Weldon
Dorothy Mackaill
as Lola Cresmer
Syd Saylor
as Mac MacIntosh, the prop man
Paul Cavanagh
as Wylie Thornton
Natalie Moorhead
as Alma Jenkins Thornton
Marion Shilling
as Anice Cresmer
William Humphrey
as Allison, addled actor
Herman Bing
as Sam, stage director
Dot Farley
as Ella, hefty actress
Arthur Hoyt
as Watkins, theater watchman
Matthew Betz
as "Lovely" Holmes
Walter Brennan
as Backstage Detective [extra]