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Writers:
Matt Brooks (story)
Eddie Davis (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
11 February 1938 (USA) more
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Tagline:
IT'S SLUG-NUTTY! The Biggest Fun Bargain in Years (original poster) more
Plot:
A songwriter uses the songs one of his pupils writes while sleeping for his own contract. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Bob Burns ... Lester Robin
Jack Oakie ... Harry Miller
Kenny Baker ... Kenny Baker

Ann Miller ... Billie Shaw
Victor Moore ... Paul Plummer

Milton Berle ... Teddy Jordan
Helen Broderick ... Gertie Shaw
Jane Froman ... Jane Froman (Hal Kemp Vocalist)
Buster West ... Squenchy
Melissa Mason ... Lisa
Richard Lane ... Crane
Marilyn Vernon ... Delia Robin
Hal Kemp ... Hal Kemp, Bandleader
Don Wilson ... Radio Announcer Don Wilson
William Brisbane ... Mr. Ipswich
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Additional Details

Runtime:
90 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Victor System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #3913) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

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Trivia:
In Feb. 1938, this film was being shown on a double bill with The Jury's Secret (1938). more
Quotes:
Lester Robin: Honestly, you're as purty as the picture of a seed catalogue tomato. more
Movie Connections:
Edited into Footlight Varieties (1951) more
Soundtrack:
WHY MUST I LOVE YOU more

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5 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
Pleasantly silly, 21 October 2004
7/10
Author: Lupercali from Tasmania

Pleasantly lightweight and silly comedy about a dimwitted musical genius from Arkansas who can compose brilliant songs - but only while asleep, never remembering them upon waking. He moves to the big smoke and is exploited by a ruthless duo of producers. This involves some pretty funny scenes of them trying to get him to fall asleep (once asleep he starts singing, and they feverishly write down the music and lyrics, and publish them themselves) - though perhaps this gag is overdone a bit in the scene where the bedroom gets filled with pigs and ducks and sheep.

Watch out for Ann Miller in an early scene, doing some dance steps which ought to be physically impossible.

No classic, but well worth a watch.

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