"EVERY TIME I TRY TO GET NEXT TO A BLONDE...A KILLER GETS THERE FIRST!"
Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of broken romances and divorces, Virginia decides she will marry him. Virginia is slain that night and Blandon telephones his friend, Philo Vance, to help find the killer.
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William Wright
Philo Vance
Vivian Austin
Lorena Blendon Simms
Leon Belasco
Alexis Karnoff
Clara Blandick
Stella Blendon
Ramsay Ames
Virginia Berneaux
Damian O'Flynn
Larry Blendon
Frank Wilcox
George Hullman
Iris Adrian
Maggie McCarthy / Choo-Choo Divine
Ann Staunton
Helen Varney Blendon
Tim Murdock
The Policeman
Mary Scott
Mary
Wade Crosby
Choo-Choo's Bodyguard (Uncredited)
Eddie Dunn
Police Lieutenant Mullard (Uncredited)
Broderick O'Farrell
Dr. Campbell (Uncredited)
Phyllis Planchard
Agatha Cowle (Uncredited)
