Overview
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'.
Director and cast
- Luther Reed Director
- 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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