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Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)

 -  Comedy | Musical  -  26 May 1934 (USA)
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Unscrupulous agent Pat O'Brien makes singing waiter Dick Powell a big radio star while Ginger Rogers, who has lost her own radio show, helps Powell.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
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Rush
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Clayton
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Peggy
The Mills Brothers ...
(as The Four Mills Bros.)
Ted Fio Rito and His Band
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Pete
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Sharpe
Joseph Cawthorn ...
Herbert Brokman (as Joseph Cawthorne)
Joan Wheeler ...
Marge
Henry O'Neill ...
Lemuel Tappan
Johnny Arthur ...
Norma Hanson's Secretary
The Radio Rogues ...
Imitators (voice) (as The Three Radio Rogues)
Jimmy Hollywood ...
One of The Three Radio Rogues (voice) (as Jim Hollingwood)
Eddie Bartell ...
One of The Three Radio Rogues (voice)
Henry Taylor ...
One of The Three Radio Rogues (voice)
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Unscrupulous agent Pat O'Brien makes singing waiter Dick Powell a big radio star while Ginger Rogers, who has lost her own radio show, helps Powell. Written by Jack McKillop <jem3@donuts0.bellcore.com>

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Comedy | Musical

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26 May 1934 (USA)  »

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Connections

Version of My Dream Is Yours (1949) See more »

Soundtracks

"I Heard"
(1932) (uncredited)
Written by Don Redman
Sung by The Mills Brothers
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Blah Warners musical
5 November 2000 | by (New York, NY) – See all my reviews

When Lee Tracy plays a promoter who gets fired but tries to promote a nobody anyhow, that's chutzpa; when Pat O'Brien is in the role, it just seems like failure with bluster. If Tracy tried to break up the happy couple it would be playing the "game" too far, and he'd really regret it later. O'Brien just seems like a heel, and there's no sense of his remorse even when he belatedly fixes things up. RKO's similar PROFESSIONAL SWEETHEART, also with Ginger Rogers and made the year prior, is a much better, much funnier film, although even it doesn't have the timing and ensemble playing of the very best Warners films. Unfortunately, TWENTY MILLION SWEETHEARTS isn't one of the best Warners films by a long shot; it's too long, too flabby, not smartly written, and with a weaker cast than the RKO film (Cawthorne is not Ratoff). The story has Powell singing several songs more than once, and he sings them all the way through each time. And they're not great songs. The Mills Brothers are great, but their two numbers are placed back-to-back (perhaps to more easily excise them in the South). And the plot doesn't really make much sense. One has to assume that this was made LATE in 1934, after the stringent implementation of the Production Code. (But Ginger is splendid anyhow.)


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