Convention Girl

Wily hotel 'hostess' Babe LaVal navigates booming business, cabaret calls and shady deals in Atlantic City. She meets a soup magnate, and begins to feel it might be 'the real thing'.

Cast

Rose Hobart

as Cynthia 'Babe' LaVal

Weldon Heyburn

as Bill Bradley

Sally O'Neil

as Gracie, Call Girl

Herbert Rawlinson

as Ward Hollister

Shemp Howard

as Dan Higgins

Lucille Mendez

as Peg, Call Girl

James Spottswood

as John 'Cupid' Pettyjohn

Nancy Kelly

as Betty, Singer-Call Girl

Alan Brooks

as Ernest

Nell O'Day

as Daisy Miller, Tommy's Sweetheart

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