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Cast
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| Dick Powell | ... |
Richard 'Dick' Purcell, aka Ricardo Purcelli
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| Joan Blondell | ... |
Alice Hughes
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Professor Eduardo de Vinci
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Louise Fazenda | ... |
Mrs. Flaggenheim
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William Gargan | ... |
Cliff Stanley
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George Barbier | ... |
Music Critic Hayward
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| Grant Mitchell | ... |
E.V. Richards, Radio Producer
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Ted Fio Rito | ... |
Ted Fio Roto - Prchestra Leader
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The Mills Brothers | ... |
The Four Mills Brothers
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Donald Mills | ... |
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Harry Mills | ... |
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Herbert Mills | ... |
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John Mills | ... |
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Hobart Cavanaugh | ... |
Music Critic Gilmore
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Joe Sawyer | ... |
'Red'
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LOVERS ENRAPTURED -- ...Sweethearts enthralled in the light of venetian moonbeams and music!Certificate:
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USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
27 July 1935 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Efterlyst i radioen See more »Company Credits
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(1935) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Sung by Dick Powell and Ted Fio Rito Orchestra (as "Ted Fio Rito and His Band") on the radio show
Reprised by Dick Powell and The Mills Brothers on the radio show
Played also as background music
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Joseph E. Bernard is listed in the studio records in the role of "Official", but was not seen in the print. See more »Soundtracks
"Lulu's Back in Town"(1935) (uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Al Dubin
Sung by Dick Powell and Ted Fio Rito Orchestra (as "Ted Fio Rito and His Band") on the radio show
Reprised by Dick Powell and The Mills Brothers on the radio show
Played also as background music
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DICK POWELL is a cab driver with singing aspirations who doesn't mind holding up traffic while he demonstrates his singing prowess to a couple of captive passengers who are so impressed they arrange an audition for him. Only in the movies, only in the movies.
This is another one of those improbable Warner Bros. comedies with a far-fetched plot that has him spoiling his radio audition when his song turns out to be a children's ditty with his part relegated to imitating barnyard animals. With the mike still on, he loses his temper and the job.
When JOAN BLONDELL, as assistant to radio manager GRANT MITCHELL, is assigned to Italy, who should follow her (as a stowaway aboard ship), but Powell, still intent on impressing her with his singing. Before you know it, thanks to his pal ADOLPHE MENJOU, Powell gets work as a gondolier. After that, the plot follows the rather familiar course of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl, all in musical comedy fashion of the '30s.
Dick Powell has a pleasant, if unremarkable voice and his tenor serenading is pleasing enough, as is his flair with light material. Of course, he bowls over the radio station's sponsor (LOUISE FAZENDA) the moment he lifts his voice in song within earshot of those he needs to impress as he rows his gondolier in the moonlight.
Naturally, Blondell re-discovers him in a new setting and romance blossoms. It's the kind of set-up Warners would use later for their female star, DORIS DAY, always being discovered for either a radio show or Hollywood by Jack Carson or Dennis Morgan in her early Warner comedies that used the same formula.
It's pleasant nonsense, easy to take, and makes no special demands on your viewing pleasure if you enjoy watching DICK POWELL and JOAN BLONDELL so obviously enjoying themselves. None of the songs are particularly memorable and it's the kind of film soon forgotten after one viewing, but obviously it offered the kind of entertainment that answered the needs of undemanding Depression-era audiences.