Gift of Gab

Gift of Gab

30 BIG STARS IN THE MUSICAL MIRTH QUAKE OF ROMANCE AND LAUGHS!

1934 · 70 min · ★ 5.2 · Music, Comedy

Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.

Directed by Karl Freund

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Cast

Edmund Lowe Phillip "Gift of Gab" Gabney
Gloria Stuart Barbara Kelton
Boris Karloff Himself
Bela Lugosi Himself
Ruth Etting Ruth
Phil Baker Absent-minded Doctor
Ethel Waters Herself
Paul Lukas The Corpse
Victor Moore Colonel Horatios Trivers
Chester Morris Doyle
Alice White Margot
Hugh O'Connell Patsy

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