Convention Girl

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Convention Girl

1935

1h 7m

6.0(1 votes)

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Drama

Music

Overview

Wily hotel 'hostess' Babe LaVal navigates booming business, cabaret calls and shady deals in Atlantic City. She meets a soup magnate, and begins to feel it might be 'the real thing'.

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15 members

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Rose Hobart

Cynthia 'Babe' LaVal

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Weldon Heyburn

Bill Bradley

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Sally O'Neil

Gracie, Call Girl

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Herbert Rawlinson

Ward Hollister

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Shemp Howard

Dan Higgins

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Lucille Mendez

Peg, Call Girl

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James Spottswood

John 'Cupid' Pettyjohn

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Nancy Kelly

Betty, Singer-Call Girl

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Alan Brooks

Ernest

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Nell O'Day

Daisy Miller, Tommy's Sweetheart

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Ruth Gillette

Helen Shalton, Singer-Call Girl

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William H. White

Penrod

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Laliva Browne

Mrs. Pettyjohn

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Toni Reed

Tommy LaVal, Cynthia's Nephew

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Isham Jones

Orchestra Leader

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