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Home Sweet Homicide (1946)
Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.
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Mystery writer Marian Carstairs is hard at work trying to finish her latest novel. Her three children meanwhile are entertaining themselves by trying to solve a murder in their own neighborhood. In between gathering clues, the kids play matchmaker by trying to fix up their widowed mom with the handsome detective investigating the case.
Rating:NR
Genre:Comedy, Mystery
Written By:F. Hugh Herbert
In Theaters:10/2/1946
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Runtime:90 minutes
Studio:20th Century Fox
Cast
Lloyd Bacon
Director
Peggy Ann Garner
Dinah Carstairs
Randolph Scott
Lt. Bill Smith
Lynn Bari
Marian Carstairs
Dean Stockwell
Archie Carstairs
Connie Marshall
April Carstairs
James Gleason
Sgt. O'Hare
Anabel Shaw
Polly Walker
Barbara Whiting
Jo-Ella Holbrook
Shepperd Strudwick
Mr. Wallace Sanford
Marietta Canty
Cherrington Housekeeper
Pat Flaherty
Policeman Murphy
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