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Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
“A Mad, Merry, Musical Delight!”
Music · 1h 30m
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
Cast
Alice Faye
Adolphe Menjou
Gregory Ratoff
Patsy Kelly
Ted Healy
Michael Whalen
Al Ritz
Jimmy Ritz
Harry Ritz
Montagu Love
Dixie Dunbar
Douglas Fowley
Crew
- Director
- Sidney Lanfield
- Writer
- Milton Sperling, Harry Tugend, Jack Yellen
- Director of Photography
- J. Peverell Marley
- Editor
- Barbara McLean
- Producer
- Darryl F. Zanuck
Details
- Release date
- 1936-08-21
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- 20th Century Fox