Bedtime Story

Bedtime Story

MEN...I'LL BET YOU TELL THIS ONE TO ALL THE GIRLS!

NR 1941 · 85 min · ★ 5.8 · Comedy, Romance

A Broadway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few 'worlds-apart" discussion of the issue, they get a divorce. The actress marries a banker in a fit of pique only to quickly discover the divorce was not valid. She communicates this information to her not-yet ex-husband and he, to prevent consummation of the invalid marriage rescues her by sending plumbers, waiters, porters, chambermaids, bellhops, desk clerks, exterminators and, finally, a crowd of roistering conventioneers to the suite to ensure no bedtime story would take place there

Directed by Alexander Hall · Written by Richard Flournoy

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