A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940)
and Featuring the Most Beautiful Girls in the World
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has Earl Carroll and several of his acts kidnapped, figuring the kidnapping coup will cause Jones to be laughed out of office. In Carroll's absence his assistant, Ramona Lisa, and his press agent, Barney Nelson put on the show themselves with the remaining talent, the chorus girls and also pressing into the entertainment cigarette girls, cloakroom girls, the doorman and others including oil heiresses Brenda Gusher and Cobina Gusher. Carroll and the other prisoners make their escape when a kidnapped juggling act sends their captors down in a barrage of beer bottles.
- Date of release
- 1940-12-06
- TMDB
- 4.5 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 2m
- Genres
- Music
- Director
- Kurt Neumann
Casting
- Ken Murray — Barney Nelson
- Rose Hobart — Ramona Lisa
- Elvia Allman — Cobina Gusher
- Blanche Stewart — Brenda Gusher
- Earl Carroll — Self
- Lillian Cornell — Self
- J. Carrol Naish — Steve Kalkus
- Leila Moore — Lela Moore
- Jack Norton — Alonzo Smith
- Russell Hicks — Mayor Jones of Hollywood
- William B. Davidson — Mayor Green of San Bernardino
- Forbes Murray — Mayor Brown of Pasadena
Interesting facts
A Night at Earl Carroll's is a 1940 American musical film directed by Kurt Neumann and written by Lynn Starling. The film stars Ken Murray, Rose Hobart, Elvia Allman, Blanche Stewart, Earl Carroll, J. Carrol Naish, and Lela Moore. The film was released on December 6, 1940, by Paramount Pictures.
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