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Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Romance, Musical
Release Year: 1940
Country: USA
Runtime: 84
Rating: 6.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: H.C. Potter
Sound: Mono
Taglines:It traps you in your own house... then pulls the plug. In every second of every day, it improves our lives. And in a flash, it can end them. The ultimate shocker.
Writing by: Frank Cavett - (story)
Elaine Ryan - (writer) and
Ian McLellan Hunter - (writer)
Johnny Mercer - (contributions)
Ben Hecht - uncredited
Produced by: Boris Morros - producer
Robert Stillman - associate producer
Fred Astaire - associate producer (uncredited)
Cast: Fred Astaire - Danny ONeill
Paulette Goddard - Ellen Miller
Artie Shaw - Himself
Charles Butterworth - J. Lester Chisholm
Burgess Meredith - Hank Taylor
Frank Melton - Stu
Jimmy Conlin - Mr. Dunn (as Jimmy Conlon)
Don Brodie - Apartment Desk Clerk
Marjorie Kane - Whitemans secretary
Joan Barclay - Whitemans receptionist
Willa Pearl Curtis - Scrubwoman
Music: Artie Shaw
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: When perennial college students Danny ONeill and Hank Taylor are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie Shaws band and reunite with ex-manager Ellen Miller.
Plot: Danny and Hank are surprised when Artie Shaw hires competent manager Ellen away from their college band. The two trumpet players scheme to get into Shaws outfit themselves, each trying to trump the others plays.
Crazy Credits: We know about 3 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
After the credits, a last scene follows: Peter and Martin see on TV the doctor has won a prize for cooking the best quiche, and jealous and frustrated throw away the fries they were baking
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Jonah and Matty practice baseball in the park, the ball is returned to Jonah by someone obviously taller than eight-year-old Matty.
Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Comedy, Romance, Musical
Release Year: 1940
Country: USA
Runtime: 84
Rating: 6.6 (0)
Languages: English
Director: H.C. Potter
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: Frank Cavett - (story)
Elaine Ryan - (writer) and
Ian McLellan Hunter - (writer)
Johnny Mercer - (contributions)
Ben Hecht - uncredited
Produced by: Boris Morros - producer
Robert Stillman - associate producer
Fred Astaire - associate producer (uncredited)
Cast: Fred Astaire - Danny ONeill
Paulette Goddard - Ellen Miller
Artie Shaw - Himself
Charles Butterworth - J. Lester Chisholm
Burgess Meredith - Hank Taylor
Frank Melton - Stu
Jimmy Conlin - Mr. Dunn (as Jimmy Conlon)
Don Brodie - Apartment Desk Clerk
Marjorie Kane - Whitemans secretary
Joan Barclay - Whitemans receptionist
Willa Pearl Curtis - Scrubwoman
Music: Artie Shaw
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: When perennial college students Danny ONeill and Hank Taylor are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie Shaws band and reunite with ex-manager Ellen Miller.
Plot: Danny and Hank are surprised when Artie Shaw hires competent manager Ellen away from their college band. The two trumpet players scheme to get into Shaws outfit themselves, each trying to trump the others plays.
Crazy Credits: We know about 3 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
After the credits, a last scene follows: Peter and Martin see on TV the doctor has won a prize for cooking the best quiche, and jealous and frustrated throw away the fries they were baking
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: When Jonah and Matty practice baseball in the park, the ball is returned to Jonah by someone obviously taller than eight-year-old Matty.
Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- The trumpet part for Fred Astaire was dubbed by Bobby Hackett.
- The trumpet part for Burgess Meredith was dubbed by Billy Butterfield.
- Cut from the movie was "Me and the Ghost Upstairs" (music by Bernard Hanighen, lyrics by Johnny Mercer), sung by Fred Astaire and danced by him with the films dance director, Hermes Pan, who was covered by a sheet. The prerecording and rehearsal footage still exist. Mr. Astaires commercial waxing, initially released by Columbia Records on a single, has been reissued on two import CD box sets: "The Centenary Collection" from by the British label Castle Pulse, and "Songs & Pictures 1928-1944" on EPM Music, a French company.
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