I watched this delightful little bubbly comedy because I saw that Joan Blondell was in it. With those big eyes of hers and a quick retort always  ready on her lips, Blondell is always worth a watch. Blondell was such a trooper in show business. Acting since childhood, she gained a reputation as being always on time, always giving it 100%, never being difficult on the set or with the bosses. She was just happy to be in show business. She was in film from 1930 to her death in 1979. She was one of Warner's go-to girls for comedy or tough dames. I always like her if not the film so much. This one - clearly a B film from its running time  - is so good natured and fun that it kept me on the edge of laughter throughout. Lots of good cracks from everyone and a dead body to contend with ala Weekend at Bernies some fifty years later. A slight but lovely screwball comedy made in 1941. The year is important because war was on the horizon and in many small ways the film alludes to that. The American Firsters could not have been happy.


A hotel focuses its marketing on conventions of men - the Magician Convention is just ending and the Mortician Convention is arriving. Take a guess at which are more fun. Blondell and her sister played by Binnie Barnes are convention hostesses' whose job it is to keep things light and set up entertainment. They are both doing it to send their little sister - Janet Blair - to a posh school. Blondell is in love with a reporter - John Howard - who wants her to quit but he doesn't make enough money - till that whopping $25 raise hopefully comes through. The hotel manager is played by the humorist Robert Benchley with his typical understated comedy. The sister shows up and turns out to know more about men than Blondell ever will.


Things go off the tracks and get very funny when they find a dead body that they think has been murdered in the next room to theirs in the hotel. They decide that to save their jobs and the hotel's reputation they need to move it out of the hotel. Meanwhile, the reporter sees it and turns in the story. It becomes a game of movable hide and seek dead body as they steal it from one another - the body joins a poker game, is asked to sing, ends up in someone's bed who thinks it is his wife and so on. Everybody talks a mile a minute as they are suppose to in these types of films. Eric Blore is a drunk magician who spends the entire film wandering the halls calling out for Charley and three housekeepers (Una O'Connor) find the dead body and just ignore it. Blondell tells two drunks singing in the hallway that they should join Dick Powell next door. She was married to him at the time.