Curtain at Eight

An elderly detective sets out to find who murdered a lecherous stage actor. His estranged wife? His would-be fiancee? Her father? Her boyfriend? A suicided actress's sister? The temperamental prop man? Or maybe the show's talented female chimpanzee?

Mystery

C. Aubrey Smith

(Detective Jim Hanley)

Sam Hardy

(Capt. Martin Gallagher)

Russell Hopton

(Reporter Mooney)

Ruthelma Stevens

(Doris Manning)

Hale Hamilton

(J.K. Manning)

Jack Mulhall

(Carey Weldon)

Dorothy Mackaill

(Lola Cresmer)

Syd Saylor

(Mac MacIntosh, the prop man)

Paul Cavanagh

(Wylie Thornton)

Natalie Moorhead

(Alma Jenkins Thornton)

Marion Shilling

(Anice Cresmer)

William Humphrey

(Allison, addled actor)

Herman Bing

(Sam, stage director)

Dot Farley

(Ella, hefty actress)

Arthur Hoyt

(Watkins, theater watchman)

Matthew Betz

("Lovely" Holmes)

Walter Brennan

(Backstage Detective [extra])