Murder inside a studio!
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.
George Brent Joan Blondell Adele Jergens Jim Bannon Leslie Brooks Marvin Miller Una O'Connor Grant Mitchell Mary Field Fred F. Sears Cliff Clark John Berkes Willy Trenk-Trebitsch Don Wilson Lane Chandler Edith Evanson William Forrest Gregory Gaye Wilton Graff Cosmo Sardo Hedda Hopper Louella Parsons Sidney Skolsky Jimmy Starr Erskine Johnson Patsy Moran Kenner G. Kemp
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