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Director:
Edwin L. Marin
Writers:
Katharine Brush (story)
Elaine Ryan (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
21 October 1938 (USA) more
Plot:
To stop Pinkie's mother Dottie from marrying a man they know she does not love, Pinkie and her friend... more | add synopsis
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Raining Ten Pins In the Sky more

Cast

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Judy Garland ... 'Pinkie' Wingate
Freddie Bartholomew ... Herbert 'Buzz' Mitchell
Mary Astor ... Mrs. Dorothy 'Dottie' Wingate
Walter Pidgeon ... Richard Thurlow
Alan Hale ... J.J. Slattery
Scotty Beckett ... Billie Wingate
Barnett Parker ... Abercrombie

Gene Lockhart ... Mr. Arthur Drubbs
Charley Grapewin ... Uncle Joe Higgins
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Additional Details

Runtime:
75 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System) | Stereo
Certification:
Finland:S | USA:Approved (PCA #4561)
Company:
Loew's more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
'Pinkie' Wingate: [sings] I've got you. You've got me. Who cares how rough the road may be? We'll go bumpty, bumpty, bumpty, bump. On the bumpy road to love. more
Movie Connections:
References Three Smart Girls (1936) more
Soundtrack:
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart more

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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Raining Ten Pins In the Sky, 28 March 2006
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Author: bkoganbing from Buffalo, New York

Judy Garland is concerned that mom Mary Astor might be marrying prim and proper banker Gene Lockhart for all the wrong reasons. She concocts a scheme with friend Freddie Bartholomew to kidnap mom and little brother Scotty Beckett in a motor home and head for the open road so she can see what's out there.

I know it sounds like a crazy plot, but it actually is both funny and charming. Judy gets to introduce one of her standards, Zing When the Strings of My Heart and later on during a thunderstorm she comforts Scotty Beckett with the song It's Raining Ten Pins in the Sky. Of course that is a total ripoff of what Bing Crosby sang in the exact same situation in Pennies from Heaven, but who cares.

On the road the family meets both Walter Pigeon and Alan Hale, both more acceptable choices for the widow Astor. Who does she choose. You'll have to sit through Judy Garland singing some really nice songs in her inimitable style to find out.

Not a bad trade, not a bad trade at all.

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