The Smiling Ghost. 1941.
A heiress thinks she is cursed as three of her intended grooms have meet with a horrible end. Her aunt hires a man Lucky Downing to be engaged to her niece for a month and break the curse.
This was a old fashioned crime thriller flick with some comedy added into it, Wayne Morris plays the chemical engineer who is jobless and willing to take on any job, and Willie Best as his partner Clearance who becomes his valet and provides most of the comedy and laughs. Alexis Smith plays the young Elinor who believes she is cursed and doomed to die old and alone. It does have it's big house, secret passages, gloomy looking cellars and a weird smiling faced ghost. Worth a watch.
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