Curtain at Eight

Russell Hopton as Reporter Mooney Dorothy Mackaill as Lola Cresmer Paul Cavanagh as Wylie Thornton Natalie Moorhead as Alma Jenkins Thornton Dot Farley as Ella, hefty actress Matthew Betz as "Lovely" Holmes Ruthelma Stevens as Doris Manning Hale Hamilton as J.K. Manning Jack Mulhall as Carey Weldon Syd Saylor as Mac MacIntosh, the prop man Marion Shilling as Anice Cresmer Arthur Hoyt as Watkins, theater watchman C. Aubrey Smith as Detective Jim Hanley Sam Hardy as Capt. Martin Gallagher William Humphrey as Allison, addled actor Herman Bing as Sam, stage director Walter Brennan as Backstage Detective [extra]