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The Smiling Ghost is a 1941 American horror comedy film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Wayne Morris, Alexis Smith, and Alan Hale. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers . In the film, a woman has lost three fiancés to mysterious accidents.
The Smiling Ghost: Directed by Lewis Seiler. With Wayne Morris, Brenda Marshall, Alexis Smith, Alan Hale. An heiress seems to be cursed as each of her intended grooms meets with a horrible end.
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- Comedy, Horror, Mystery
- Lewis Seiler
- 1941-09-06
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Based on an original story by Stuart Palmer (author of the Hildegarde Withers mystery novels, which garnered their own film series at RKO), The Smiling Ghost is derivative but charming stuff, rich in sliding panels, clutching hands, and characters who are not all they claim to be.
- Lewis Seiler, Hugh Cummings, Art Lueker
- Wayne Morris
Overview. Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a month to break the curse. But Lucky becomes a target of what appears to be the ghost of one of the former fiances.
The Smiling Ghost. Lucky is hired to become engaged to Elinor, a wealthy widow. He learns she is nicknamed "The Kiss of Death Girl" after her last three fiances die violently; Lucky tries to ...
- Drama
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Elinor Fairchild, a wealthy, beautiful widow, described by the scandal sheets as "The Kiss of Death Girl," because the last three men she has been engaged to marry all met a violent death. For a stipulated amount of money, 'Lucky" Downing, a newly-graduated chemical engineer, agrees to 'be engaged' to her. Then, the mysterious "Smilin' Ghost ...
