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MURDER AT THE VANITIES uses a murder mystery story as the background for filming elaborate revue numbers purportedly from “Earl Carroll’s Vanities.” The original stage show (not the murder mystery) was a series of tableau scenes featuring beautiful showgirls in various stages of undress and in exotic fantasy scenarios.
Oct 3, 2020 · Murder at the Vanities (1934). 89 minutes. Directed by Mitchell Leisen. Starring Carl Brisson (as Eric Lander), Victor McLaglen (as Lt. Bill Murdock), Jack Oakie (as Jack Ellery), Kitty Carlisle (as Ann Ware), Dorothy Stickney (as Norma Watson), Gertrude Michael (as Rita Ross), Jessie Ralph (as Helene Smith), Gail Patrick (as Sadie Evans), Toby Wing (as Nancy), and Donald Meek (as Dr. Saunders).
Oct 11, 2022 · An opening night of a new musical leads to real behind-the-scenes drama when the play’s leading lady (Carlisle) is the target of a brutal murder plot. Producer Jack Ellery (Oakie) hires detective Bill Murdock (McLaglen) to solve the crime and chase down a killer while staying out of the spotlight. Directed by Hollywood ace Mitchell Leisen ...
Oct 2, 2011 · Murder at the Vanities definitely delights in the female form and no one will accuse the movie of being feminist, but it least registers that to a degree of self awareness. Every night the entire chorus line must go under a large banner promising the Vanities star “The Most Beautiful Girls in the World.”
Earl Carroll Girl (uncredited) Arthur Rankin. ... Assistant Treasurer (uncredited) Hazel Reese. ... Black Dancer in Duke Ellington's Ebony Rhapsody (uncredited) Rita Rober.
Synopsis. Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to marry leading man Eric Lander. Stage manager Jack Ellery calls in his friend, policeman Bill Murdock, to help him investigate.
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Murder at the Vanities (1934) Murder at the Vanities. (1934) Directed by Mitchell Leisen. Leisen keeps things lively in this pre-Code backstage musical mystery in which a hardboiled police inspector investigates a murder at a theater while the show goes on. Songs include “The Rape of the Rhapsody,” featuring Duke Ellington and his orchestra ...
