''Miss Pinkerton'' is a 1932 American
pre-Code
Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the Cinema of the United States, American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship gui ...
comedy mystery film about a nurse who becomes involved in a murder investigation.
It stars
Joan Blondell
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in film and television for 50 years.
Blondell began her career in vaudeville. After winning a beauty pageant, she embarked on a film career, estab ...
,
George Brent and
Ruth Hall. The film is adapted from a book with the same title, by American novelist
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie.Keating, H.R.F., ''The Bedside Companion to Crime''. New York: Mysterious Press, 1989, p. 170. Rinehart published her fi ...
.
Plot
Elderly Juliet Mitchell suffers shock upon discovering her nephew's lifeless body. It is not clear if the young man, Herbert Wynn, was killed by accident while cleaning his gun or if he committed suicide or was murdered. Miss Adams (
Joan Blondell
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in film and television for 50 years.
Blondell began her career in vaudeville. After winning a beauty pageant, she embarked on a film career, estab ...
) is called in to serve as nurse for the bedridden Mitchell. Police Inspector Patten (
George Brent) thinks Wynn may have been murdered, so he privately asks Miss Adams to watch the household and report back to him. She is hesitant about accepting the job, but the handsome detective persuades her to help and nicknames her "Miss
Pinkerton." The odd behavior of Mitchell and her household staff, her doctor, her lawyer, and the late Wynn's girlfriend give Miss Adams plenty to report.
Cast
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Joan Blondell
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress who performed in film and television for 50 years.
Blondell began her career in vaudeville. After winning a beauty pageant, she embarked on a film career, estab ...
as Nurse Adams aka "Miss Pinkerton"
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George Brent as Police Inspector Patten
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Ruth Hall as Paula Brent
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John Wray as Hugo
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Elizabeth Patterson as Juliet Mitchell
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C. Henry Gordon as Dr. Stuart
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Holmes Herbert
Holmes Herbert (born Horace Edward Jenner; 30 July 1882 – 26 December 1956) was an English character actor who appeared in Hollywood films from 1915 to 1952, often as a British gentleman.
Early life
Born Horace Edward Jenner, (some sour ...
as Arthur Glenn
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Mary Doran as Florence Lenz
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Blanche Friderici as Mary
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Allan Lane as Herbert Wynn (scenes deleted)
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Nigel De Brulier
Nigel De Brulier (born Francis George Packer; 8 August 1877 – 30 January 1948) was an English stage and film actor who began his career in the United Kingdom before relocating to the United States.
Biography
Nigel De Brulier was born in French ...
as Coroner James A. Clemp (as Nigel de Brulier)
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Eulalie Jensen as Miss Gibbons
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Walter Brennan
Walter Andrew Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) was an American actor and singer. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for ''Come and Get It (1936 film), Come and Get It'' (1936), ''Kentucky (film), Kentucky'' (19 ...
as Police Dispatcher (uncredited)
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Lyle Talbot as Newspaper Editor (uncredited)
See also
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The Nurse's Secret'' (1941)
References
External links
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1932 films
1930s comedy mystery films
American comedy mystery films
American black-and-white films
Films based on American novels
Films directed by Lloyd Bacon
Films based on works by Mary Roberts Rinehart
1932 comedy films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films
Films scored by Bernhard Kaun
English-language comedy mystery films
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