Cartoon producer Jean Parker is looking for a singer for her new cartoon. When her auditions in her Sutton Place apartment disturb the neighbors, cop Phil Regan shows up to tell them to pipe down. She discovers he is a fine soprano, and her boss, Jerome Cowan, hires him at $300 a week to sing the role, but no one tells him it's for a cartoon. Meanwhile, Regan and Miss Parker get married. When Regan attends his sneak preview and discovers the truth, he walks out and returns to 10th Avenue, whither Miss Parker follows him.
It's thoroughly idiot-plotted, as you can see, but despite that, all the individual parts work, from the Termite Terrace animation, to Oscar O'Shea as Regan's stereotyped father. Somehow this was an Oscar nomination for best music and score for Cy Feuer. With Peggy Ryan, Mary Gordon, and Horace McMahon.
Like his character, Regan started out as a cop, then became the radio's "Romantic Singer of Romantic Songs." His movie career extended to 1950. He was convicted of bribery in 1972, and died in 1996 at the age of 89.
It's thoroughly idiot-plotted, as you can see, but despite that, all the individual parts work, from the Termite Terrace animation, to Oscar O'Shea as Regan's stereotyped father. Somehow this was an Oscar nomination for best music and score for Cy Feuer. With Peggy Ryan, Mary Gordon, and Horace McMahon.
Like his character, Regan started out as a cop, then became the radio's "Romantic Singer of Romantic Songs." His movie career extended to 1950. He was convicted of bribery in 1972, and died in 1996 at the age of 89.
