Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.
Claude Rains | Lee Gentry |
Margo | Carmen Brown |
Whitney Bourne | Katy Costello |
Stanley Ridges | Eddie White |
Paula Trueman | Buster Malloy |
Leslie Adams | State's Attorney O'Brien |
Esther Dale | Miss Keeley |
Marjorie Main | Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited) |
Fanny Brice | Extra in hotel lobby (uncredited) |
Helen Hayes | Extra in hotel lobby (uncredited) |
Ben Hecht | Court interviewer with pipe (uncredited) |
Greta Granstedt | Della |