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58% Critic Match
Bedtime Story
“MEN...I'LL BET YOU TELL THIS ONE TO ALL THE GIRLS!”
5.8 / 10• 1941• 1h 25m•NR• English
ComedyRomance
Storyline
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
Cast & Crew
Fredric March
Luke Drake
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Alexander Hall's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Bedtime Story is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
