The Canary Murder Case
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Malcolm St. Clair
William Powell
Louise Brooks
Jean Arthur
Gustav Von Seyffertitz
Charles Lane
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Margaret O'Dell, a blackmailing musical comedy star, is found strangled in her apartment, and four men come under suspicion: Lindquist, a half-mad doctor in love with Margaret; Cleaver, a politician whose career she threatened; Mannix, a fat broker with a jealous wife; and Jimmy Spotswoode, a young society boy Margaret was attempting to blackmail into marriage. Jimmy is arrested, and Philo Vance, a whimsical society man and amateur detective who is a close friend of Jimmy's father, is called in on the case. Vance proves the murderer to have been the elder Spotswoode.
Director
Malcolm St. Clair
Cast
William Powell
Louise Brooks
Jean Arthur
Gustav Von Seyffertitz
Charles Lane
Eugene Pallette
Lawrence Grant
Ned Sparks
Louis John Bartels
E. H. Calvert
George Y. Harvey
Oscar Smith
Tim Adair
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Originally shot as a silent in 1928. Louise Brooks refused to return from Germany for the dubbing.
'Margaret Livingston' dubbed Louise Brooks' voice.
Brooks' refusal to dub the movie angered her parent studio, Paramount, and effectively sabotaged her acting career.
The story was based on the real-life murder of showgirl Dot King, which was never solved.