Two Senoritas from Chicago
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Cast & Crew
Frank Woodruff
Joan Davis
Jinx Falkenburg
Ann Savage
Leslie Brooks
Bob Haymes
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Synopsis
Disgusted with their latest musical play, Portuguese playwrights Gilberto Garcia and Armando Silva ask the hotel manager to dispose of their manuscript. After the manager tosses the play down the trash chute, Daisy Baker, a refuse sorter at the hotel, who envisions herself as a theatrical agent, finds it in the trash and, deciding that it represents her golden opportunity, mails it to New York producer Rupert Shannon. When Daisy receives a telegram from Shannon inviting her to come to New York and sign the contracts for the play, she creates a fictional author named Manuel DeBragansa. Daisy then wires Shannon that DeBragansa is on vacation but she will bring his sisters, who have his power of attorney. Daisy then recruits hotel maids Gloria and Maria, who are aspiring musical comedy stars, to impersonate the sisters. In New York, the ambitious Gloria and Maria almost derail Daisy's dreams when they insist upon playing the leads in the play. Shannon agrees to their terms, however, and the play goes into rehearsal. Meanwhile, Shannon's assistant, Jeff Kenyon, becomes infatuated with Gloria and tells her that he has written a musical in which she and Maria can star as soon as the new show closes. Daisy's plans go awry when Lena Worth and Louise Hotchkiss, Gloria and Maria's arch enemies, arrive in New York and threaten to expose them unless they are given parts in the play. Daisy arranges for them to play two Portuguese girls, and things go smoothly until Shannon throws a party for the press and invites rival producer Sam Grohman, who brings with him Garcia and Silva. When Gloria learns that Garcia and Silva have sold their play to Grohman, who plans to produce it with Lena and Louise playing the leads, she confesses the truth to Shannon. Daisy, ever resourceful, suggests that Shannon can save his investment by telling Grohman that it would be bad business to have two Portuguese musicals appear on Broadway at the same time and offering his scenery and stars in exchange for a partnership arrangement. The deal is almost set when Louise and Lena, fearing for their jobs, reveal that Shannon's play is the same as Grohman's. Daisy, Gloria, Maria and Shannon are jailed for their deception, but Shannon is released after Jeff posts his bail. As Gloria paces her cell, she conceives of an idea to free them. After Daisy confesses that she was solely responsible for the situation, Gloria and Maria are released. Gloria then talks Jeff into producing his own play with the scenery that Shannon had built. On opening night, Daisy escapes from jail and scurries to the theater. Jeff's production is a hit, and Shannon signs the contract for the new play just as the final curtain comes down and the police catch up with Daisy.
Director
Frank Woodruff
Cast
Joan Davis
Jinx Falkenburg
Ann Savage
Leslie Brooks
Bob Haymes
Ramsey Ames
Emory Parnell
Douglas Leavitt
Muni Seroff
Max Willenz
Stanley Brown
Frank Sully
Charles C. Wilson
Romaine Callender
George Mckay
Harry Strang
Constance Worth
Craig Woods
Douglass Drake
Eddie Laughton
Vi Athens
Ralph Dunn
Pat Flaherty
Jack Kenney
Kate Lawson
Wilbur Mack
Sam Ash
Fred Rapport
Harrison Greene
Neila Hart
Anne Loos
Crew
William R. Anderson
Lionel Banks
Nick Castle
Saul Chaplin
Diana Gayle
William Kiernan
Alex Kramer
Tom Lambert
Wallace Macdonald
John P. Medbury
L. W. O'connell
William O'connor
Hugh Prince
Stanley Rubin
Walter G. Samuels
Perry Smith
M. W. Stoloff
Jerome Thoms
Maurice Tombragel
Travilla
Steven Vas
Joan Whitney
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According to a pre-production news item in Hollywood Reporter, Charles Barton was originally slated to direct this picture. Although a Hollywood Reporter production chart adds Edmund Lowe to the cast, he was not in the released film. This picture marked the screen debut of Vi Athens. Two Senoritas from Chicago was a sequel to the 1941 Columbia film Two Latins from Manhattan, which also starred Joan Davis and Jinx Falkenburg and featured the antics of two aspiring singers.
