Man About Town (1939)

Plot Summary

Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he picks up stranger Lady Arlington, whose financier husband neglects her. On a weekend at the Arlington country house, Bob is used by both Lady A. and her friend to make their husbands jealous; this works all too well, and Bob is in danger from both husbands.

Full Cast & Characters

Jack Benny

Bob Temple

Dorothy Lamour

Diana Wilson

Edward Arnold

Sir John Arlington

Binnie Barnes

Lady Arlington

Monty Woolley

Henri Dubois

Isabel Jeans

Mme. Dubois

Phil Harris

Ted Nash

Betty Grable

Susan Hayes

E. E. Clive

Hotchkiss

Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Rochester

Matty Malneck

Matty Malneck

Cecil Kellaway

Headwaiter (uncredited)

Director & Crew

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