Always a Bridesmaid
Cast & Crew
Erle C. Kenton
Patti Andrews
Maxene Andrews
Laverne Andrews
Patric Knowles
Grace Mcdonald
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Chicago deputy district attorney Tony Warren is sent undercover by his boss, Martin Boland, to ascertain who has been swindling the members of the local Lonely Hearts clubs. Under the alias of oilman Tony Armstrong, Tony joins Lonely Hearts, Inc., where he immediately attracts the attention of lonely employees the Andrews Sisters, who work as both radio singers and secretaries for the club. Tony, however, is immediately attracted to another new member, Linda Mae Perkins. At the club's social, Patti Andrews dissuades the romantic interests of restaurateur Nick in order to chase after Tony. Tony's attentions, however, are directed to Colonel Thadious Winchester, a promoter who claims to own a new imitation rubber formula. The social is interrupted by a group of teenagers who have also rented the hall for a dance, and after some angry discussions, the two groups decide to combine their events. Later, Tony is enjoying a lunch date in the country with Linda when he is arrested for driving through a stop sign. When the county clerk insists on holding them until the judge returns from his vacation, Tony and Linda pretend to be eloping. As the clerk goes to get a justice of the peace, Tony overhears Linda on the phone and comes to suspect her as being one of the swindlers. Tony and Linda escape the county clerk and matrimony, and, a few days later, Nick agrees to sponsor the Andrews Sisters' radio program, during which Colonel Winchester announces his engagement to Miss Cavanaugh. Winchester further states that he is selling stock in his new imitation rubber corporation. After the broadcast, Linda convinces Winchester to hold his engagement party at Chez Nicholas. Before the party, however, Tony tells Linda who he really is, but she does not believe him. The engagement party is "crashed" by the teenagers, much to the chagrin of both Nick and Winchester. After selling Tony a thousand shares in his company, Winchester, who is actually a forger known as Indiana, and Miss Cavanaugh, who is bank robber Boston Kate, are arrested by detectives working with Linda, who is really Linda Harmon, an undercover agent for the Chicago police department. With the case solved and their true identities established, Tony and Linda are reunited.
Director
Erle C. Kenton
Cast
Patti Andrews
Maxene Andrews
Laverne Andrews
Patric Knowles
Grace Mcdonald
Charles Butterworth
Billy Gilbert
Edith Barrett
Addison Richards
Walter Baldwin
Eddy Waller
Charles Williams
Matt Willis
The Jivin' Jacks And Jills:
Dorothy Babb
Grace Costello
Bebe Fox
Shirley Mills
Jean Davis
Roland Dupree
Tommy Rall
Ronald Stanton
Jimmy Vecchio
Bobby Scheerer
O'neill Nolan
Anne Rooney
Charles Cane
Philip Van Zandt
Ralph Dunn
Billy Wayne
Harrison Greene
John Sheehan
Crew
Harold Adamson
John W. Boyle
Oscar Brodney
Bernard B. Brown
Jules Buffano
R. A. Gausman
A. J. Gilmore
Ken Goldsmith
John Goodman
Earl Hanbrich
William Hedgcock
Roy Jacobs
Al Lewis
Harold Macarthur
Charles Maynard
Jimmy Mchugh
Gene De Paul
Don Raye
Mel Ronson
Vic Schoen
Vic Schoen
Milton Schwarzwald
Howard Simon
Ray Snyder
Irving Weiser
Vera West
John Wilfahrt
Mack Wright
Hy Zaret
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Although contemporary reviews state that the Andrews Sisters sing five songs in this film, only four numbers were heard in the viewed print. The song "As Long As I Have You," which was listed in publicity materials, was missing from the viewed print and May have been cut from release prints.
