Man About Town (1939)
1h 25m
Running Time
June 29, 1939Release Date
Man About Town (1939)
1h 25m
Running Time
June 29, 1939Release Date
Plot.
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.
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Cast & Crew.
Jack Benny
Bob Temple
Dorothy Lamour
Diana Wilson
Edward Arnold
Sir John Arlington
Monty Woolley
Henri Dubois
Binnie Barnes
Lady Arlington
Isabel Jeans
Mme. Dubois
Mark Sandrich
Director
Phil Harris
Ted Nash
Morrie Ryskind
Writer
Betty Grable
Susan Hayes
Zion Myers
Writer
Allan Scott
Writer
E. E. Clive
Hotchkiss
Arthur Hornblow Jr.
Producer
Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Rochester
Ted Tetzlaff
Cinematographer
Matty Malneck
Matty Malneck / Original Music Composer
Cecil Kellaway
Headwaiter (uncredited)
Peggy Stewart
Mary (uncredited)
Norman Ainsley
Waiter #2 (uncredited)
Wesley Barry
Messenger Boy (uncredited)
Leon Belasco
Arab Petitioner in Show (uncredited)
Wilson Benge
Servant (uncredited)
Charles Coleman
Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
Dorothy Dayton
Dancer (uncredited)
Herbert Evans
Englishman (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Spectator Behind Lady Arlington (uncredited)
Harriette Haddon
Dancer (uncredited)
Charlie Hall
Bob's Assistant (uncredited)
Charles Irwin
Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Colin Kenny
English Bobby (uncredited)
Kay Linaker
Receptionist (uncredited)
Alphonse Martell
Waiter in Show (uncredited)
Adolph Milar
Musselman
Leonard Mudie
Gibson (uncredited)
Bert Roach
Arab Petitioner in Show (uncredited)
Tiny Roebuck
Abdul (uncredited)
Patti Sacks
Jane (uncredited)
Clifford Severn
English Bellboy (uncredited)
Cyril Thornton
Waiter (uncredited)
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Man About Town is a 1939 musical comedy film starring Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, and Edward Arnold. The screenplay concerns a producer who tries to get his leading lady to take him seriously romantically by pursuing other women.
Then-Sen. Harry S. Truman saw the movie in Washington, and wrote in a letter home to his wife that he enjoyed it.