Mr. and Mrs. North

"Gracie says: "There's been a burglar here! Nobody but a burglar would put anything on my dressing table in the right place. I never do.""

Apr 28 1943 Approved 1h 7m
Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Married sleuths (Gracie Allen, William Post Jr.) find a corpse in their closet and round up suspects.

Plot

Jerry North (William Post Jr.) and his wife, Pam (Gracie Allen)return home after a night away in a holiday spirit. The spirit soon vanishes when the body of a man falls out of the liquor closet. The corpse is identified as Stanley Brent, the estranged husband of Carol Brent (Rose Hobart), a friend of Pam's. As the clues are unearthed, it appears that some member of the North's social circle, who knew they would be away, gained entrance to their apartment, asked Brent to come there and murdered him. Pam tries to establish alibis for all of her friends, and in doing so inadvertently establishes who killed Brent.

Written by

S.K. Lauren, Owen Davis, Richard Lockridge

Directed by

Robert B. Sinclair

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
427
Average Rating
6 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA