

Bedtime Story
1941-12-25 · 85 min · ★ 5.8
A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there
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- Directors
- Alexander Hall
- Production companies
- B.P. Schulberg Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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Fredric MarchLuke Drake
Loretta YoungJane Drake
Robert BenchleyEddie Turner
Allyn JoslynWilliam Dudley
Eve ArdenVirginia Cole
Helen WestleyEmma Harper
Joyce ComptonBeulah
Tim RyanMac
Olaf HyttenAlfred
Dorothy AdamsBetsy
Clarence KolbCollins
Andrew TombesPierce
Spencer ChartersGas Station Attendant (uncredited)
James FlavinHotel Guest in Room 625 (uncredited)
Byron FoulgerFirst Hotel Clerk (uncredited)Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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