Blonde for a Day

Blonde for a Day (1946)Cast and Crew

Movie"MICHAEL SHANE, DETECTIVE STEPS OUT WITH A BLONDE...AND GETS KNOCKED FOR A LOOP BY A BRUNETTE!"

Cast

H
Hugh Beaumont
as Michael Shayne
K
Kathryn Adams
as Phyllis Hamilton
C
Cy Kendall
as Inspector Pete Rafferty
M
Marjorie Hoshelle
as Helen Porter
F
Frank Ferguson
as Walter Bronson
R
Richard Fraser
as Dillingham 'Dilly' Smith
P
Paul Bryar
as Tim Rourke
M
Mauritz Hugo
as Hank Brenner
C
Charles C. Wilson
as Chief of Police Will Gentry (as Charles Wilson)
S
Sonia Sorel
as Muriel Bronson
C
Claire Rochelle
as Minerva Dickens

Crew

S
Sam Newfield
Director
F
Fred Myton
Screenplay
B
Brett Halliday
Story
B
Brett Halliday
Characters

Michael Shayne Collection

The 1940 film Michael Shayne, Private Detective is the first in a series of twelve movies. Lloyd Nolan starred as Shayne through 1942, until the series was dropped by Twentieth Century Fox and picked up by PRC. At that point, Hugh Beaumont took over the role in five films released in 1946.