The Talk of the Town (1942)
Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
Top billed cast
Cary GrantLeopold Dilg
Jean ArthurNora Shelley
Ronald ColmanMichael Lightcap
Edgar BuchananSam Yates
Glenda FarrellRegina Bush
Charles DingleAndrew Holmes
Emma DunnMrs. Shelley
Rex IngramTilney
Leonid KinskeyJan Pulaski
Tom TylerClyde Bracken
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