
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?
Director E. Mason Hopper
Cast

Matthew Betz
"Lovely" Holmes

Walter Brennan
Backstage Detective [extra]

Marion Shilling
Anice Cresmer

William Humphrey
Allison, addled actor

C. Aubrey Smith
Detective Jim Hanley

Hale Hamilton
J.K. Manning

Syd Saylor
Mac MacIntosh, the prop man

Paul Cavanagh
Wylie Thornton

Herman Bing
Sam, stage director

Dot Farley
Ella, hefty actress

Sam Hardy
Capt. Martin Gallagher

Dorothy Mackaill
Lola Cresmer

Natalie Moorhead
Alma Jenkins Thornton

Arthur Hoyt
Watkins, theater watchman

Russell Hopton
Reporter Mooney

Ruthelma Stevens
Doris Manning

Jack Mulhall
Carey Weldon