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Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
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]).
Rated NR | Length 90 minutes
Actors
Alice Faye | Adolphe Menjou | Gregory Ratoff | Patsy Kelly | Ted Healy | Michael Whalen | Al Ritz | Jimmy Ritz | Harry Ritz | Montagu Love | Dixie Dunbar | Douglas Fowley | Paul Stanton | Tony Martin | Monica Bannister | Bonnie Bannon | Lynn Bari | John Bleifer | Stanley Blystone | George Chandler | Diane Cook | Pauline Craig | Lester Dorr | Virginia Field | Bess Flowers | June Gale | Arthur Hoyt | Selmer Jackson | DeWitt Jennings | Jerry Larkin | Sam McDaniel | Paul McVey | Lucille Miller | Carroll Nye | William H. O'Brien | Lillian Porter | Cully Richards | Tom Ricketts | Donna Mae Roberts | Don Rowan | Ernie Stanton | Charles Tannen | Julius Tannen | Dale van Sickel | Poppy Wilde | June Wilkins | Eric Wilton | Helen Wood | Wanda Perry