
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

Hale Hamilton
J.K. Manning

Jack Mulhall
Carey Weldon

Natalie Moorhead
Alma Jenkins Thornton

Herman Bing
Sam, stage director

Arthur Hoyt
Watkins, theater watchman

Ruthelma Stevens
Doris Manning

Syd Saylor
Mac MacIntosh, the prop man

William Humphrey
Allison, addled actor

Dorothy Mackaill
Lola Cresmer

Dot Farley
Ella, hefty actress

Matthew Betz
"Lovely" Holmes

Walter Brennan
Backstage Detective [extra]

Paul Cavanagh
Wylie Thornton

Marion Shilling
Anice Cresmer

C. Aubrey Smith
Detective Jim Hanley

Sam Hardy
Capt. Martin Gallagher

Russell Hopton
Reporter Mooney