Fine Art of Boxing, The (No Stooge in the Ring)
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.

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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