Man About Town

Man About Town is a 1939 musical comedy film starring Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, and Edward Arnold. The screenplay concerns a producer who tries to get his leading lady to take him seriously romantically by pursuing other women. Then-Sen. Harry S. Truman saw the movie in Washington, and wrote in a letter home to his wife that he enjoyed it. Cast Jack Benny as Bob Temple Dorothy Lamour as Diana Wilson Edward Arnold as Sir John Arlington Binnie Barnes as Lady Arlington Monty Woolley as Henri Dubois Isabel Jeans as Mme. Dubois Phil Harris as Ted Nash Betty Grable as Susan Hayes E. E. Clive as Hotchkiss Eddie Anderson as Rochester The Merriel Abbott Dancers as Themselves Matty Malneck and His Orchestra as Themselves The Pina Troupe as Themselves Charles Coleman as Hotel Doorman (uncredited) Cecil Kellaway as Headwaiter (uncredited) Cliff Severn as English Bellboy (uncredited) References