Bedtime Story

"MEN...I'LL BET YOU TELL THIS ONE TO ALL THE GIRLS!"

Dec 25 1941 Passed 1h 25m
Comedy, Romance

A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there

Plot

A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there.

Written by

Richard Flournoy, Horace Jackson, Grant Garett

Directed by

Alexander Hall

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures, B.P. Schulberg Productions

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
736
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA