Letter of Introduction
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
John M. Stahl
Adolphe Menjou
Andrea Leeds
George Murphy
Edgar Bergen And Charlie Mccarthy
Rita Johnson
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Synopsis
After her mother's death, struggling actress Katherine "Kay" Martin meets and falls in love with dancer Barry Paige in New York just before she delivers a "letter of introduction" to stage and screen idol John Mannering. Mannering is deeply touched to discover from the letter that Kay is his daughter by a wife he had abandoned in Nashville, but their decision not to tell of this connection arouses the jealousy of Barry and breaks Mannering's engagement to Lydia Hoyt. Despite his occasional irresponsibility, Mannering showers affection on Kay and boosts the career of her friend, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen. Convinced that Kay is unfaithful to him, Barry proposes to his dance partner, Honey, and leaves on a tour, while an unhappy Kay is given a role opposite Mannering in a Broadway production. Nervous because of his long absence from the theater, Mannering gets drunk on opening night, muffs his lines, and collapses on stage. Afterward, the distraught Mannering walks in front of a moving taxi and dies before he is able to tell reporters that Kay is his daughter. Kay, on her way back to her home town, encounters Barry, who had never married and who still loves her. Kay shows him her letter, finally revealing her secret.
Director
John M. Stahl
Cast
Adolphe Menjou
Andrea Leeds
George Murphy
Edgar Bergen And Charlie Mccarthy
Rita Johnson
Ann Sheridan
Ernest Cossart
Frank Jenks
Eve Arden
Jonathan Hale
Constance Moore
Frances Robinson
Eleanor Hansen
Raymond Parker
Stanley Honiss
Walter Perry
George Davis
Chester Clute
Russell Hopton
Bert Hendrickson
Kay Stanley
George Humbert
Dick Buck
Dorothy Grainger
Inez Courtney
V. Corbin
Philip Trent
M. Wagner
D. Barry
William Lundigan
May Boley
Armand Kaliz
Dick Winslow
Alphonse Martel
George Davies
Yvonne Brusseau
Anthony Hughes
Bobby Teefts
Grace Hayle
Bill Davidson
Natalie Moorhead
Hayden Stevenson
Harry Bradley
Dora Clement
Alan Davis
Grace Goodall
Rolfe Sedan
Ray Johnson
Crauford Kent
Esther Ralston
Richard Tucker
Helene Millard
Frank Elliott
Hugh Huntley
Crew
Bernice Boone
Bernice Boone
Bernard B. Brown
Don Carstenson
Myles Connelly
Eugene Delmar
Viña Delmar
John Ewing
J. Fields
Karl Freund
W. Frock
R. A. Gausman
Sheridan Gibney
Charles Gould
Bernie Guffey
F. Hugh Herbert
Moree Herring
Jimmie Higgins
William Hurlbut
Tom Karnagle
Ted Kent
Wally Kirkpatrick
Joseph Lapis
Charles Maynard
Joseph A. Mcdonough
Emily Moore
Norma Nilson
Jack Otterson
Jack Pierce
Charles Previn
Charles R. Rogers
Frank Rowan
Frank Skinner
P. Smith
Leonard Spigelgass
Jackie Spitzer
John M. Stahl
Helen Stoeffler
B. Streeter
Bill Thomas
F. Tuck
Michael Walsh
Vera West
Film Details
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Notes
Universal production files at the USC Cinema-Television Library include a contributing writer credit for someone named Green; this May have been writer George Green. Edgar Bergen's dummy, "Mortimer Snerd," appeared with him for the first time in this film.
