''Sealed Lips'' is a 1942 American

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directed by George Waggner and starring

William Gargan William Dennis Gargan (July 17, 1905February 16, 1979) was an American film, television and radio actor. He was the 5th recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1967, and in 1941, was nominated for the Academy Award for Be ...

, June Clyde and John Litel.Gates p.145

Plot

Main cast

as Lee Davis * June Clyde as Lois Grant * John Litel as Fred M. Morton / Mike Rofano * Anne Nagel as Mary Morton - Fred's Wife * Mary Gordon as Mrs. Ann Morton, Fred's mother * Ralf Harolde as Lips Haggarty *

Joseph Crehan Joseph A. Creaghan (July 15, 1883 – April 15, 1966) was an American film actor. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1916 and 1965, and notably played Ulysses S. Grant nine times between 1939 and 1958, most memorably in ''Union Paci ...

as Chief Charles R. Dugan *

Addison Richards Addison Whittaker Richards, Jr. (October 20, 1902 – March 22, 1964) was an American actor of film and television. Richards appeared in more than 300 films between 1933 and his death in 1964. Biography A native of Zanesville, Ohio, Richard ...

as Chief Gary Benson *

Russell Hicks Edward Russell Hicks (June 4, 1895 – June 1, 1957) was an American film character actor. Hicks was born in 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland Maryland ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region of the ...

as Dr. Charles Evans * Edwin Stanley as Warden * Charles Lane as Attorney Emanuel 'Manny' T. Dixon * William Gould as Dist. Atty. Slater * Walter Sande as Investigator Gene Blake

References

Bibliography

* Gates, Phillipa. ''Detecting Women: Gender and the Hollywood Detective Film''. SUNY Press, 2011.

External links

* 1942 films 1942 crime films American crime films Films directed by George Waggner Universal Pictures films American black-and-white films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films English-language crime films {{crime-film-stub