BigList
Login / Sign up
She Asked for It (1937)

She Asked for It (1937)

Crime Comedy Adventure Mystery

Mysteries are his meat! He writes 'em...he reads 'em...but when she makes him start to solve 'em...help, police!

Release Date: 1937, September 17
Directors: Erle C. Kenton
Countries: United States of America
Production: B.P. Schulberg Productions, Paramount Pictures
Cast: Nora Cecil, Tully Marshall, William Gargan, Miki Morita, Richard Carle, Vivienne Osborne, Roland Drew, Harry Fleischmann, Harry Beresford, Orien Heyward, Alan Birmingham

Overview:

Dwight Stanford and his wife, Penny, are a pair of spendthrifts who can't hold on to money, dependent for support on Dwight's rich uncle, who sends them a monthly allowance. Conrad Norris, Dwight's cousin, disapproves of Dwight and Penny, and resents his uncle's generosity. The uncle is the victim of a hit-and-run accident and, there being no will, Conrad, as next of kin, inherits. Switch, the uncle's lawyer, tells Dwight he is shutout with no hope of appeal. Dwight starts writing mystery novels about a fictional detective named Steven Knight, which become instant hits and the money pours in.

Keywords:

detective lawyer divorce