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Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)

Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)

Music

A Mad, Merry, Musical Delight!

Release Date: 1936, August 21
Directors: Sidney Lanfield
Countries: United States of America
Production: 20th Century Fox
Cast: Carroll Nye, Lester Dorr, Dale Van Sickel, Bess Flowers, Douglas Fowley, Julius Tannen, Stanley Blystone, William H. O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou, Patsy Kelly, Paul McVey, Gregory Ratoff

Overview:

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]).

Keywords:

nightclub nightclub singer