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18 February 1942 (USA)
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"All we need is a theatre...a singer...and an audience" (original lobby card) more
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Show promoter Cartwright has stolen the songs that Frank wrote while he was in the big house. The boys...
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Fun B movie with an enthusiastic cast!!!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Virginia Weidler | ... | Patsy Eastman |
| Ray McDonald | ... | Steve |
| Leo Gorcey | ... | 'Snap' Collins |
| Douglas McPhail | ... | Murray Saunders |
| Rags Ragland | ... | 'Grunt' |
| Sheldon Leonard | ... | Pete Detroit |
| Henry O'Neill | ... | Frank Eastman |
| Larry Nunn | ... | Mike Conroy |
| Margaret Dumont | ... | Mrs. E. V. Lawson |
| Beverly Hudson | ... | Maggie Cooper |
| Richard Hall | ... | Mozart Cooper |
| Darla Hood | ... | 'Quiz Kid' |
| Joe Yule | ... | Ed Collera |
| Lester Matthews | ... | Arthur Cartwright |
| Ben Carter | ... | 'Eight-ball' |
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82 min
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USA:Passed (National Board of Review)
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Alone
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This is such an interesting film, if as the previous comments attest to, some details that even I never knew, IE: The finale that was originally part of the WPA (ask kids today what THAT was!) and the Federal Theater Project's contribution to the Depression. What I found interesting/sad/macabre, was how many of the young actors in that film met an early demise. On the IMDb site itself:
1)Virginia Weidler: Heart attack, age 41
2)Larry Nunn: Self inflicted gun shot wound, age 49
3)Ray McDonald: Death by choking on food in hotel room, age 34
4)Ben Carter, age 35
5)Leo Gorcey: Liver failure, age 53
6)Douglas McPhail: poison, after 1st failed suicide attempt,age 30
7)Rags Ragland: uremic poisoning, age 40
8)Darla Hood: died in North Hollywood following a relatively minor
operation of acute hepatitis under "mysterious
circumstances", age 47
9)Richard Haydel, age 22 Was this film cursed? Or did actors die quicker then?