Ann Harding is a chaperone spending time with pledges and sorority sisters in a mountain cottage in 'Nine Girls," from 1944.
The young women included Jeff Donnell, Nina Foch, Evelyn Keyes, Jinx Falkenburg, Anita Louise, Shirley Mills, Lynn Merrick, Marcia Mae Jones, and Leslie Brooks. William Demarest plays a police officer.
One of the young women, Paula (Louise), hated by everyone, is murdered some time before the sorority gets to the mountain cottage, and they hear about it on the radio. The police arrive to get some information. Gradually the women start to suspect one another.
This is a comedy-drama, kind of silly but fun. It's dramatic in the beginning and end, with Demarest providing the comedy in between. One of the women, played by Lynn Merrick, imitates Katharine Hepburn throughout.
The starlets went on to various success - Jinx Falkenburg was actually a top model and crowned Miss Rheingold at one point. Evelyn Keyes, Anita Louise, Nina Foch, and Jeff Donnell enjoyed varying degrees of success. But each woman went on to some sort of a career.
There are some funny scenes - Demarest thinking his breakfast is poisoned and having Donnell test it, Demarest being discovered in long underwear, plenty of screaming and lights suddenly being turned off.
Enjoyable B.