The Housekeeper's Daughter
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| Directed by | Hal Roach |
| Produced by | Hal Roach |
| Written by | Donald Henderson Clarke (novel) Rian James Gordon Douglas Jack Jevne Claude Martin |
| Starring | Joan Bennett Adolphe Menjou John Hubbard |
| Music by | Amedeo De Filippi Lucien Moraweck |
| Cinematography | Norbert Brodine |
| Edited by | William H. Ziegler |
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Hal Roach Studios
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time
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80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Housekeeper's Daughter is a 1939 comedy film directed and produced by Hal Roach. The film stars Joan Bennett, Adolphe Menjou and John Hubbard. The screenplay was written by Rian James, Gordon Douglas, Jack Jevne and Claude Martin, based on a novel by Donald Henderson Clarke.
Plot
Hilda decides to quit being a gun moll and go visit her mother, who is the housekeeper for the Randall family. The Randall's go on vacation, leaving son Robert behind to embark upon a career as a reporter. Soon after, Benny, a meek flower vendor, follows showgirl Gladys Fontaine when Floyd, a mob chieftan, forces her to join him on his houseboat. Fearing for Gladys' life, Benny puts poison in a cup of coffee intended for Floyd, but Gladys drinks it instead, and Benny watches in horror as Floyd tosses the dead girl's body into the river. The next morning, Robert reads about Gladys' death and decides to cover the story, attaching himself to ace criminal reporter Deakon Maxwell and photographer Ed O'Malley. At a police interrogation session, they witness Benny confess to Gladys' murder and Robert, taking pity on the little man, befriends him. After a night of drinking on the town with Deakon and Ed, Benny suggests to the drunken Robert that he call his editor and tell him that Gladys was thrown from a houseboat. Waking up the next morning with no memory of the evening's events, Robert finds that his story has scooped the other newspapers and that he is being hailed as a hero. Robert's story leads Floyd to believe that the reporter has the goods on him, and he orders him eliminated. As the gang converges on the Randall house, Deakon and Ed are shooting fireworks from the roof and, believing that the fireworks are the sound of gun shots, the gangsters open fire. As the mobsters begin dropping dead from Benny's poisoned coffee, the police come to the rescue and Robert announces his engagement to Hilda.
Cast
- Joan Bennett as Hilda
- Adolphe Menjou as Deakon Maxwell
- John Hubbard as Robert Randall
- William Gargan as Ed O'Malley
- George E. Stone as Benny
- Peggy Wood as Olga
- Donald Meek as Editor Wilson
- Marc Lawrence as Floyd
- Lilian Bond as Gladys Fontaine
- Victor Mature as Lefty
- John Hyams as Professor Randall
- Leila McIntyre as Mrs. Randall
- Luis Alberni as Tony Veroni
- Rosina Galli as Mrs. Veroni
- Tom Dugan as Gangster
- Gene Morgan as Gangster
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Housekeeper's Daughter at IMDb
- The Housekeeper's Daughter at the TCM Movie Database
- The Housekeeper's Daughter at the TCM Movie Database
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- The Housekeeper's Daughter at the British Film Institute's Film and TV Database
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