Missing Daughters


1h 3m 1939

Film Details

Genre
Crime
Release Date
May 22, 1939
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Columbia Pictures Corp. of California, Ltd.
Distribution Company
Columbia Pictures Corp. of California, Ltd.
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 3m
Film Length
6 reels

Synopsis

Josie Lamonte leaves home with dreams of establishing a career as an actress. Through a talent agency controlled by Lucky Rogers, a nightclub owner and racketeer, she gets a job as a nightclub hostess at Lucky's club, where she discovers that the hostess racket is just a cover for white slave traffic. When Josie quits and threatens to expose Lucky to the police, Lucky orders her to be killed. After her body is fished out of the river, radio crime columnist Wally King broadcasts an editorial about the police department's inability to solve the series of nightclub hostess murders that have been plaguing the city, and as a result, the police give Wally carte blanche to solve the case. When Josie's sister Kay Roberts brings Wally a letter from Josie indicating that she feared for her life, Wally realizes that he must infiltrate the hostess racket in order to uncover the truth. Wally persuades a group of chorus girls to whom he has given a break to apply for jobs at the club, and Kay takes the job of hat check girl, where she learns the location of a girl who has been beaten by Lucky. After persuading the girl to tell all she knows, Wally goes to Lucky's club and interrupts one of Lucky's disciplinary sessions. Lucky decides to kill the columnist, but first admits to Josie's murder. Captain McGraw of the police department overhears the confession and arrests Lucky. Anxious to round up the rest of Lucky's organization, Wally invites them all to a banquet, where police officers posing as waiters disarm and arrest the racketeers.

Cast

Richard Arlen

Wally King

Rochelle Hudson

Kay Roberts

Marian Marsh

Josie Lamonte

Isabel Jewell

Peggy

Edward Raquello

Lucky Rogers

Dick Wessel

Brick McGirk

Eddie Kane

Nick

Wade Boteler

Captain McGraw

Don Beddoe

Al Farrow

Claire Rochelle

Doris

John Tyrell

Slinky

Lorna Gray

Nan

James Craig

First attendant

Dick Fiske

Second attendant

Forbes Murray

Receptionist

Robert Sterling

Radio man

Dick Curtis

First henchman

Laura Treadwell

Mrs. Nash

Rosina Galli

Italian

Frank Yaconelli

Italian

Allen Vincent

Slinky

Walter Sande

Snoop

Byron Foulger

Bert Ford

Bentley Hewlett

Phil Martin

John Harmon

Tim

Charles Mcavoy

Detective A

George Magrill

Mug

Cy Schindell

Mug

Joe Palma

Mug

Bert Young

Mug

Floyd Criswell

Mug

Gene Stone

Mug

Ed Randolph

Mug

Charles Regan

Mug

Cy Slocum

Waiter

Bud Geary

Waiter

Buddy Mason

Waiter

Tom Steele

Waiter

Chuck Hamilton

Waiter

Jack Gallagher

Waiter

Ralph Peters

Waiter

Earl Askam

Waiter

Dave Harper

Waiter

Beatrice Curtis

Office girl

Esther Howard

Mother Hawks

Christine Mcintyre

Ruth

Ky Robinson

Detective file clerk

Lucile Browne

Estelle

Franz English

Yvonne

Eve Lynn

Fourth showgirl

Dorothy Fay

Showgirl

Gayle Mellott

Showgirl

Ruth Seeley

Showgirl

Marion Graham

Showgirl

Dean Kaye

Showgirl

Bette Ghear

Showgirl

Mary Ainslee

Showgirl

Bonnie Otacar

Showgirl

Gerald Pierce

Messenger boy

Florence Heller

Mabel

Margaret Young

Marion

Madelyn Barrett

Adele

Dorothy Short

Bee

Janet Mcleay

Paula

Bette Oliver

First hostess

Ocean Claypool

Hostess

Patricia Knox

Hostess

Maxine Conrad

Hostess

Carol Parker

Hostess

Mildred Shay

Hostess

Rose Tyrell

Hostess

June Horne

Hostess

Mitzie Macker

Hostess

Jessie May Jackson

Margie

Marilyn Stuart

Lucille

Eleanor Riley

Laura

June Eberling

Blondie

Margaret Daggett

Dance director

Harry Bailey

Film Details

Genre
Crime
Release Date
May 22, 1939
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Columbia Pictures Corp. of California, Ltd.
Distribution Company
Columbia Pictures Corp. of California, Ltd.
Country
United States

Technical Specs

Duration
1h 3m
Film Length
6 reels

Quotes

Trivia