Three Girls About Town (1941) DVD-R

Starring Joan Blondell, Robert Benchley, Binnie Barnes, Janet Blair, John Howard, Eric Blore, Larry Parks
Directed by Leigh Jason

Print: black/white
Runtime: 75 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

Faith, Hope and Charity motivate the wacky storyline of Columbia's Three Girls About Town—
or to be more exact, gorgeous sisters Faith, Hope and Charity Banner, played respectively
by Binnie Barnes, Joan Blondell and Janet Blair. Faith and Hope are gainfully employed as
New York hotel hostesses, whose job it is to entertain wealthy out-of-town conventioneers
(but no hanky panky, if you please!) They've remained in this profession in order to afford
the expensive private-school education of their sister Charity, who shows up in the Big
Apple in pursuit of her own career, or a wealthy husband, or both. Charity's arrival coincides
with several big-time conventions, one of which is being covered by Faith's newspaper-
reporter boyfriend Tommy Hopkins (John Howard). Things get dicey when the three girls
discover a corpse in one of the hotel rooms. Certain that they'll be blamed for the death (or
at the very least fired from their jobs!), the sisters conspire with Tommy to hide the body
from the cops. Trouble is, the body just won't stay hidden, not even when our heroines try to
dispose of the awkward stiff in one of the coffins brought into the hotel for an undertaker's
convention. Blessed with a generous supply of belly-laughs and an unending stream of
familiar character actors, Three Girls About Town sustains a proper level of zaniness right
up to the finale.