Secret Philadelphia (A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure)
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Released March 13, 1935
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
MGM
82.4 min. (Feature Film)
82.4 min. (Feature Film)
MGM adaptation of S. S. Van Dine's Philo Vance novel "The Casino Murder Case." Philo Vance receives an anonymous letter warning of deadly danger to the wealthy Llewellyn family heir, Lynn. Eccentric widow Priscilla Llewellyn presides over a society family filled with greed, ego and unhappy marriage. Her secretary Doris (Rosalind Russell) becomes romatically involved with Vance (Paul Lukas), and the two are soon entangled in a mystery of murder and attempted murder involving poison and heavy water experiments.
Comic relief is supplied by Ted Healy, who assumes the series role of bumbling homicide detective Sgt. Heath, Eric Blore as Vance's butler Currie, and Louise Fazenda as the Llewellyn maid Becky.
Avg. Rating: 
[7.00/10]
[7.00/10]
Paul Lukas
Philo Vance
Rosalind Russell
Doris Reed
Alison Skipworth
Mrs. Priscilla Kinkaid Llewellyn
Donald Cook
Lynn Llewellyn
Ted Healy
Sergeant Ernst Heath
Louise Fazenda
Becky
Eric Blore
Currie
Isabel Jewell
Amelia Llewellyn
Louise Henry
Virginia Llewellyn
Arthur Byron
Richard Kinkaid
Leo G. Carroll
Smith, the Llewellyn butler
Purnell Pratt
D. A. John F. X. Maxwell
Leslie Fenton
Dr. Kane
Wallis Clark
Dr. Elton
Charles Sellon
Dr. Doremus, coroner
Keye Luke
Taki
William Demarest
Auctioneer
Lillian Elliott
Mrs. Marting
Jay Eaton
Auction floorwalker
Grace Hayle
Fat lady at auction
Ernie Adams
Fat lady's husband
William Worthington
Bidder
Pat Flaherty
Kinkaid watchman
Milton Kibbee
Reporter
Tom Herbert
Reporter
Franklin Parker
Photographer
Alphonse Martell
Roulette croupier
Sidney Bracey
Waiter
Gene Perry
French waiter
Miki Morita
Japanese casino waiter
Bert Moorhouse
Casino patron
Brooks Benedict
Casino patron
Dick Rush
Police detective
Eddie Hart
Police detective
Frank Reicher
Assistant coroner
Lee Patrick
Lynn's nurse
Edna Bennett
Kane's nurse
Edwin L. Marin
Director
Lucien Hubbard
Producer
S. S. Van Dine
Novel
Florence Ryerson
Screenplay
Edgar Allan Woolf
Screenplay
Charles G. Clarke
Photography
Conrad A. Nervig
Film Editor
Douglas Shearer
Recording Director
Cedric Gibbons
Art Director
Joseph C. Wright
Associate Art Director
Edwin B. Willis
Associate Art Director
Dimitri Tiomkin
Original Music
Leonid Raab
Orchestrator
R. H. Bassett
Orchestrator
Paul Marquardt
Orchestrator
Charles Maxwell
Orchestrator
Dolly Tree
Costume Design
Kyme Meade
Camera Operator
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