Joy Barlow

Deux producteurs montent un spectacle pour promouvoir l'œuvre d'un chanteur et d'un auteur méconnus. Un bon prétexte pour mettre en scène une pléiade de stars...

A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.

Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her editor-fiance, Bill Monroe, killed him.

Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities" provided story material for three Hollywood films: Murder at the Vanities (34), A Night at Earl Carroll's (40) and Earl Carroll Vanities (45). This last film was produced by Republic Pictures, a bread-and-butter studio specializing in Westerns and serials; Republic had made musicals before, but few of them were expensive enough to allow for lavish production numbers. Earl Carroll Vanities is likewise rather threadbare, though some of the individual musical highlights aren't bad. The plot, such as it is, concerns financially strapped nightclub owner Eve Arden, who finagles Earl Carroll into staging one of his revues at her club.

A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.

Le général Sternwood engage le détective privé Philip Marlowe pour régler une affaire de chantage dont il est victime. Un dénommé Geiger possèderait des photos compromettantes de sa fille cadette, Carmen. Mais Marlowe découvre que le maître chanteur a été assassiné. Rapidement, les cadavres s'accumulent et l'intrigue se complique. De nombreux personnage entrent en scène, dont Vivian, la sœur aînée de Carmen.