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Crime Without Passion

58 %|Aug 30, 1934|Crime, Drama

Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.

Featured Crew

Ben Hecht
Screenplay
Ben Hecht
Director
Charles MacArthur
Director
Oscar Levant
Additional Music
Lee Garmes
Director of Photography
Frank Tours
Original Music Composer
Arthur Ellis
Editor
Slavko Vorkapich
Special Effects

Cast

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Claude Rains
Lee Gentry
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Margo
Carmen Brown
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Whitney Bourne
Katy Costello
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Stanley Ridges
Eddie White
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Leslie Adams
State's Attorney O'Brien
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Dorothy Bradshaw
Jury Member (uncredited)
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Fanny Brice
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
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Jack Carr
Defendant (uncredited)
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Esther Dale
Miss Keeley (uncredited)
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Fraye Gilbert
Jury Member (uncredited)
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Greta Granstedt
Della (uncredited)
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Helen Hayes
Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)
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Ben Hecht
Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)
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Charles Anthony Hughes
Man (uncredited)
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Charles Kennedy
Police Lt. Norton (uncredited)
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Charles MacArthur
Second Interviewer (uncredited)
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Cornelius MacSunday
Gentry's Butler (uncredited)
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Marjorie Main
Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)
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Marion Martin
Theatre Cashier (uncredited)
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Fuller Mellish
Judge (uncredited)
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Betty Real
Waitress Slapping Lee Gentry (uncredited)
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Betty Sundmark
Jury Member (uncredited)
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Paula Trueman
Buster Malloy (uncredited)