Girls About Town (1931): Cast & Plot

Two glamorous women, Wanda Howard Kay Francis and Marie Bailey Lilyan Tashman, move through a world of high society and transactional relationships, sharing a luxurious apartment and planning their next move. They accompany two balding, middle‑aged businessmen from out of town—each pitched as a potential mark at a price of $500 apiece—to help Jerry Chase [Alan Dinehart] close a deal, a scheme that rests on discretion and appearances. To avoid inviting the men upstairs, the women enlist their African American maid Hattie Louise Beavers to disguise herself as their mother and wait at the window, a ruse that underscores the precarious balance between ambition and ethics in their lives.