# Girl Missing > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Girl_Missing > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Girl_Missing.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Missing > Source revision: 1340271780 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1933 film by Robert Florey For the 2019 Japanese film, see [A Girl Missing](/source/A_Girl_Missing). Girl Missing Movie poster Directed by Robert Florey Written by Carl Erickson Don Mullally Starring Glenda Farrell Ben Lyon Mary Brian Cinematography Arthur L. Todd Edited by Ralph Dawson Music by Leo F. Forbstein Production company Warner Bros. Pictures Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Release date March 4, 1933 (1933-03-04) Running time 69 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $107,000 ***Girl Missing*** is a 1933 American [pre-Code](/source/Pre-Code_Hollywood) mystery film starring [Glenda Farrell](/source/Glenda_Farrell), [Ben Lyon](/source/Ben_Lyon) and [Mary Brian](/source/Mary_Brian). It was directed by [Robert Florey](/source/Robert_Florey) and released by [Warner Bros. Pictures](/source/Warner_Bros._Pictures) on March 4, 1933.[1][2] Two women stranded in [Palm Beach](/source/Palm_Beach%2C_Florida) become involved in the case of a new bride who goes missing on her wedding night. ## Plot Kay Curtis and June Dale are two [showgirls](/source/Showgirl) living in the Palm Beach hotel. When June refuses one of her wealthy male friend's sexual advances, he chooses to let June and Kay pay for their own hotel bills. They decide to ask Daisy Bradford, who is engaged to millionaire Henry Gibson, for help paying the bills because Daisy used to be a fellow showgirl. However, Daisy pretends not to know them. Kay tries to win some money gambling, but ends up losing all their money instead. When they run into Daisy's former boyfriend Raymond Fox in the hotel, he offers them some money to leave town, but June and Kay accidentally miss the train. Later, Henry and Daisy are married, but Daisy goes missing, and a gangster named Jim Hendricks is found dead in the hotel's garden. Henry offers a large reward to the public for any information about Daisy. Kay and June decide to find Daisy and claim the reward. After Henry, Kay, and June survive a near fatal car accident, Kay suggests that they wreck the car and declare Henry dead from the automobile accident. When Daisy returns to the hotel after Henry's assumed death, she claims that Henry had drugged and kidnapped her and killed Jim Hendricks. However, Kay pulls a gun on Daisy and she confesses that she was going to run away with Raymond, and when Jim Hendricks tried to stop them, Raymond killed him. Raymond and Daisy are arrested by the police, and Henry gives the reward to Kay. Later, Henry decides to marry June, who he has fallen in love with. ## Cast - [Glenda Farrell](/source/Glenda_Farrell) as Kay Curtis - [Ben Lyon](/source/Ben_Lyon) as Henry Gibson - [Mary Brian](/source/Mary_Brian) as June Dale - [Lyle Talbot](/source/Lyle_Talbot) as Raymond Fox - [Guy Kibbee](/source/Guy_Kibbee) as Kenneth Van Dusen - [Harold Huber](/source/Harold_Huber) as Jim Hendricks - [Edward Ellis](/source/Edward_Ellis_(actor)) as Detective Chief J.T. McDonald - [Peggy Shannon](/source/Peggy_Shannon) as Daisy Bradford - [Helen Ware](/source/Helen_Ware) as Mrs. Bradford - [Ferdinand Gottschalk](/source/Ferdinand_Gottschalk) as Alvin Bradford - [Walter Brennan](/source/Walter_Brennan) as Garage attendant (uncredited) ## Production The film was shot in 13 days with a budget of $107,000. The original working title for the movie was "The Blue Moon Murder Case". Actors [Murray Kinnell](/source/Murray_Kinnell), [Walter Huston](/source/Walter_Huston) and [William Powell](/source/William_Powell) were considered for the film. And [Florence Ryerson](/source/Florence_Ryerson) was initially assigned to write the script for the movie.[3] ## Reception *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)* movie review said: "The question of what happened to Peggy Shannon is worrying the principal characters in "Girl Missing", the new film at the Rialto, but the routine and slow-paced quality of the production makes the problem less acute for its audiences. Hidden away in the picture is the material for a lively melodrama which never realizes its full possibilities. The resources that the Warners have summoned to the task of telling this story include a good deal of unintelligent dialogue, feeble direction and an unconvincing arrangement of the narrative. The acting is of no great assistance, either. Ben Lyon plays the wealthy husband, Mary Brian and Glenda Farrell appear as a pair of interested chorus girls and Lyle Talbot enacts the rôle of Daisy's former lover."[4] ## Home media [Warner Archive](/source/Warner_Archive_Collection) released a double feature DVD collection of *[Illicit](/source/Illicit_(1931_film))* (1931) and *Girl Missing* (1933) on December 13, 2010. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Girl Missing (1933)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160928015951/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ab23906). British Film Institute. Archived from [the original](http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ab23906) on September 28, 2016. Retrieved September 13, 2016. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Girl Missing (1933)"](https://www.allmovie.com/movie/girl-missing-v93121). All Movie. Retrieved September 13, 2016. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Girl Missing"](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/4413). American Film Institute: Catalog of Feature Films. Retrieved August 11, 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["MOVIE REVIEW: Kidnapping and Murder"](https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B01E3DD1438E333A25752C0A9629C946294D6CF). *The New York Times*. April 1, 1933. Retrieved September 9, 2016. ## External links - [*Girl Missing*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024062/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - [*Girl Missing*](https://web.archive.org/web/1/https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/2560/enwp) at the [TCM Movie Database](/source/Turner_Classic_Movies#TCMdb) (archived) - [*Girl Missing*](https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/4413) at the *[AFI Catalog of Feature Films](/source/AFI_Catalog_of_Feature_Films)* v t e Films directed by Robert Florey One Hour of Love (1927) The Romantic Age (1927) Face Value (1927) The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1928) The Hole in the Wall (1929) The Cocoanuts (1929) The Battle of Paris (1929) Skyscraper Symphony (1929) The Road Is Fine (1930) My Wife's Teacher (1930) Love Songs (1930) Black and White (1931) Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) The Man Called Back (1932) Those We Love (1932) Girl Missing (1933) Ex-Lady (1933) The House on 56th Street (1933) Bedside (1934) Registered Nurse (1934) Smarty (1934) I Sell Anything (1934) I Am a Thief (1934) The Woman in Red (1935) The Florentine Dagger (1935) Going Highbrow (1935) Don't Bet on Blondes (1935) Ship Cafe (1935) The Payoff (1935) The Preview Murder Mystery (1936) Till We Meet Again (1936) Hollywood Boulevard (1936) Outcast (1937) King of Gamblers (1937) Mountain Music (1937) This Way Please (1937) Daughter of Shanghai (1937) Dangerous to Know (1938) King of Alcatraz (1938) Disbarred (1939) Hotel Imperial (1939) The Magnificent Fraud (1939) Death of a Champion (1939) Parole Fixer (1940) Women Without Names (1940) The Face Behind the Mask (1941) Meet Boston Blackie (1941) Two in a Taxi (1941) Dangerously They Live (1941) Lady Gangster (1942) The Desert Song (1943) Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944) Man from Frisco (1944) God Is My Co-Pilot (1945) Danger Signal (1945) The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948) Rogues' Regiment (1948) Outpost in Morocco (1949) The Crooked Way (1949) The Vicious Years (1950) Johnny One-Eye (1950) Adventures of Captain Fabian (1951) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Girl Missing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Missing) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_Missing?action=history)). 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