Mr. and Mrs. North

Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)

Gracie says: "There's been a burglar here! Nobody but a burglar would put anything on my dressing table in the right place. I never do."

Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.

Date of release
1942-01-23
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (8)
Runtime
1h 7m
Genres
Comedy, Mystery
Director
Robert B. Sinclair

Casting

Interesting facts

Mr. and Mrs. North is a 1942 American comedy mystery film directed by Robert B. Sinclair, starring Gracie Allen and William Post, Jr. as detectives Pam and Jerry North. The screenplay was based on a 1941 Broadway play by Owen Davis, which in turn was based on a series of mystery novels by Frances and Richard Lockridge. Pam North, a dizzy socialite, and her husband Jerry return home from a vacation to find a dead body in their apartment. All the suspects are close friends of the Norths, a fact that encourages Pam to gently interfere in the ongoing murder investigation conducted by Lt. Weigand.

Production

The film was based on the 1941 play of the same name, which ran for 163 performances at the Belasco Theatre in New York. It featured Albert Hackett and Peggy Conklin in the title roles, as well as Millard Mitchell as Detective Mullins, a role he reprised for the film. The play itself was based on three short stories by Richard and Frances Lockridge that were featured in the New Yorker magazine in 1940.

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