Three Blind Mice (1938 film)

Three Blind Mice
Directed by William A. Seiter
Produced by Raymond Griffith
Darryl F. Zanuck (uncredited)
Written by Brown Holmes
Lynn Starling
Based on the play Three Blind Mice
by Stephen Powys
Starring Loretta Young
Joel McCrea
David Niven
Music by Charles Maxwell
Cinematography Ernest Palmer (American cinematographer)
Edited by James B. Morley
Production
company
Distributed by 20th Century Fox (France) (theatrical)
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation (1938) (USA) (theatrical)
Release dates
  • June 18, 1938 (1938-06-18)
Running time
75 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Three Blind Mice is a 1938 romantic comedy film starring Loretta Young, Joel McCrea and David Niven.

Plot

Three Kansas sisters, owners of a chicken farm, dream of romantic life as rich ladies. As a play between sisters, Pamela (Loretta Young) plays the rich lady, Moira (Marjorie Weaver) her personal maid and Elizabeth (Pauline Moore) her personal secretary. When they inherit 5000 $ they decide to try it and head for California in search of a rich husband for one of them. The roles are left how they are used in playing at home. Soon Pamela has not only one but two dating gentlemen. And in no time she is in trouble which one to marry. But as Van Dam Smith (Joel McCrea) is the one she loves, but he's the one without money, because his grandfather keeps it and spends it on Zoo's, they decide she has to marry rich Steve Harrington (David Niven). In Harrington's house she and her sisters meet Steve's sister Miriam (Binnie Barnes), who fell for Van Dam Smith. Meantime Mike (Stuart Erwin), who the sisters already knew from the Hotel they stayed in California, has reached the Harrington House and has been engaged as a servant. In fact he was in love with Moira and followed her. Elizabeth sympathizes with Steve Harrington, as it is obvious at a certain point that Pamela and Steve are not matching. And at the End Pamela explains to her becoming husband Van Dam that "it is just that easy to fall in love with a poor man as a rich one". Miriam Harrington has to be satisfied in having a lot of money, but no man.

Cast

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