Gracie Allen and husband William Post Jr. meet up at their apartment, where a corpse falls out of their liquor closet.
It's based on the stage play derived from a series of stories by mystery writer Richard Lockridge. While it's fun to listen to Gracie natter on, no one seems to be willing to play straight man to her; cops Paul Kelly and Millard Mitchell look exasperated. I suppose it's a reasonable reaction, but it goes to show how necessary a good straight man is for a comic A wealth of fine character actors, including Felix Bressart, Rose Hobart, and Keye Luke fail to offer anything in the way of sparkle. Only Porter Hall offers a good performance and I have no way of telling why.
Director Robert Sinclair never got out of the programmers at MGM. After directing a dozen movies with unpromising titles like JOE AND ETHEL TURP CALL ON THE PRESIDENT and THE CAPTAIN IS A LADY, he moved to directing TV. Clearly he had some ability, but perhaps it was only as a stage director; he had been in charge of the original stage production of THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. He was killed in 1970, stabbed to death by a prowler.
It's based on the stage play derived from a series of stories by mystery writer Richard Lockridge. While it's fun to listen to Gracie natter on, no one seems to be willing to play straight man to her; cops Paul Kelly and Millard Mitchell look exasperated. I suppose it's a reasonable reaction, but it goes to show how necessary a good straight man is for a comic A wealth of fine character actors, including Felix Bressart, Rose Hobart, and Keye Luke fail to offer anything in the way of sparkle. Only Porter Hall offers a good performance and I have no way of telling why.
Director Robert Sinclair never got out of the programmers at MGM. After directing a dozen movies with unpromising titles like JOE AND ETHEL TURP CALL ON THE PRESIDENT and THE CAPTAIN IS A LADY, he moved to directing TV. Clearly he had some ability, but perhaps it was only as a stage director; he had been in charge of the original stage production of THE PHILADELPHIA STORY. He was killed in 1970, stabbed to death by a prowler.