Bedtime Story (1941)

Plot Summary

A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there

Full Cast & Characters

Fredric March

Luke Drake

Loretta Young

Jane Drake

Robert Benchley

Eddie Turner

Allyn Joslyn

William Dudley

Eve Arden

Virginia Cole

Helen Westley

Emma Harper

Joyce Compton

Beulah

Tim Ryan

Mac

Olaf Hytten

Alfred

Dorothy Adams

Betsy

Clarence Kolb

Collins

Andrew Tombes

Pierce

Director & Crew

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