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The Smiling Ghost is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Lewis Seiler released in USA on 6 september 1941 with Wayne Morris
The Smiling Ghost (1941)
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Add to a movie listThe Smiling Ghost is a film directed by Lewis Seiler in the horror comedy genre popular in the 1940s.
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The elderly Mrs. Bentley (Helen Westley) and her lawyer see a newspaper ad from an unemployed and unmarried engineer seeking work doing “anything legal.” The lawyer calls the engineer, Alexander “Lucky” Downing (Wayne Morris), and sets up a meeting, during which Lucky is offered $1000 to feign an engagement to Mrs. Bentley’s granddaughter Elinor Bentley Fairchild (Alexis Smith) for one month. Lucky considers it a strange offer, but he needs the money so he takes the job.Actors
Wayne Morris
(Alexander "Lucky" Downing)
Alexis Smith
(Elinor Bentley)
Alan Hale
(Norton)
Brenda Marshall
(Lil Barstow)
Lee Patrick
(Rose Fairchild)
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