Crime Without Passion

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.

Discover

Claude Rains

Lee Gentry

Margo

Carmen Brown

Whitney Bourne

Katy Costello

Stanley Ridges

Eddie White

Leslie Adams

State's Attorney O'Brien

Dorothy Bradshaw

Jury Member (uncredited)

Fanny Brice

Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

Jack Carr

Defendant (uncredited)

Esther Dale

Miss Keeley (uncredited)

Fraye Gilbert

Jury Member (uncredited)

Greta Granstedt

Della (uncredited)

Helen Hayes

Woman in Hotel Lobby (uncredited)

Ben Hecht

Court Interviewer with Pipe (uncredited)

Charles Anthony Hughes

Man (uncredited)

Charles Kennedy

Police Lt. Norton (uncredited)

Charles MacArthur

Second Interviewer (uncredited)

Cornelius MacSunday

Gentry's Butler (uncredited)

Marjorie Main

Backstage Wardrobe Woman (uncredited)

Marion Martin

Theatre Cashier (uncredited)

Fuller Mellish

Judge (uncredited)

Betty Real

Waitress Slapping Lee Gentry (uncredited)

Betty Sundmark

Jury Member (uncredited)

Paula Trueman

Buster Malloy (uncredited)

Art

Albert Johnson

Set Decoration

Camera

Lee Garmes

Director of Photography

Crew

Oscar Levant

Additional Music

Slavko Vorkapich

Special Effects

Mickey King

Choreographer

Leslie Bain

Special Effects

Directing

Ben Hecht

Director

Lee Garmes

Director

Editing

Slavko Vorkapich

Editorial Services

Production

Arthur Rosson

General Manager

Ben Hecht

Producer

Sound

Frank Tours

Original Music Composer

Joseph I. Kane

Sound Recordist

Frank Tours

Music Arranger

Writing

Ben Hecht

Screenplay

Ben Hecht

Story

Charles MacArthur

Screenplay

James L. Shute

Writers' Assistant