She Passed Out On Cary! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Cary Grant Priscilla Lane Raymond Massey Jack Carson Edward Everett Horton Peter Lorre James Gleason Josephine Hull Jean Adair John Alexander Grant Mitchell Edward McNamara Garry Owen John Ridgely Vaughan Glaser Chester Clute Charles Lane Edward McWade Hank Mann Spencer Charters Sol Gorss Lee Phelps Raymond Walburn Spec O'Donnell Leo White
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