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Released May 23, 1941
Featuring Shemp Howard (Solo)
Universal
58 min. (Feature Film)

Radio's singing duet The Bluebirds makes it official, and Dick and Virginia Kerrigan (Rudy Vallee and Helen Parrish) have married. Deciding to make the act a trio, Dick's friend and Virginia's ex-boyfriend Ted Bronson (Jerome Cowan) joins The Bluebirds.

Dick's backstage playboy reputation is hard to shake, with a parade of ex-girlfriends following the newlyweds. During a train trip to Los Angeles, Dick spends a late night playing poker with some old vaudeville friends, misses a connection, and winds up in San Francisco. Scheming Ted takes advantage of the situation and convinces Virginia to file for divorce in a plot to win her back. Dick is guilty over disappointing his bride and agrees to the divorce, but no lawyer will take the case due a lack of grounds. The newlyweds agree to share a hotel suite until they can earn enough money to buy a quickie Mexican divorce.

A sponsor tells radio manager Mr. Twitchell that he will buy only The Singing Kerrigans for his new program. Twitchell heads south of the border with help from hotel manager Ambrose Tripp (Shemp Howard), taxi driver Marvin Gimble (Lon Chaney Jr.), and Gimble's waitress girlfriend Hortense (Iris Adrian) in a ploy to stop Ted's machinations and keep the Kerrigans happily married.

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TOO MANY BLONDES on IMDb

Rudy Vallee
Dick Kerrigan

Helen Parrish
Virginia Kerrigan

Jerome Cowan
Ted Bronson

Shemp Howard
Ambrose Tripp

Lon Chaney Jr.
Marvin Gimble

Iris Adrian
Hortense Kent

Eddie Quillan
Wally Pelton

Irving Bacon
Mr. Twitchell

Gus Schilling
Elevator operator

Francisco Moreno
Luis Garvanza

Douglas Evans
UBC announcer

Dorothy Lee
Lorene LaRue

Jeanne Kelly
Angie De Vol

Kernan Cripps
Gate official

Eddie Bruce
Ken Atterbury

Janet Warren
Sophie Dietz

Joey Ray
Chris Jackson

Milton Kibbee
Conducter

Joe Recht
Messenger boy

Charles Trowbridge
John V. Barton

Ethelreda Leopold
Barton's secretary

Gene O'Donnell
KSKS announcer

Reid Kilpatrick
Studio pianist

Paul McVey
Mr. Talbot

Paul Ellis
Hotel clerk

Dinora Rego
Chick-a-Boom singer

Humberto Herrera
Orchestra leader

Jerry Mandy
Bartender

Guy D'Ennery
Croupier

Suzanne Ridgeway
Girl, scene deleted


Maxwell Shane
Originl Story

Louis S. Kaye
Screenplay

Milton R. Krasner
Director of Photography

Jack Otterson
Art Director

Richard H. Riedel
Associate Art Director

Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration

Bernard B. Brown
Sound Supervisor

William Hedgcock
Sound Technician

Charles Previn
Musical Director

Frank Skinner
Original Music

Walter O'Keefe
Music and Lyrics

Vernon Keays
Assistant Director


















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