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Director:
Del Lord
Writers:
Manuel Seff (original screenplay)
Monte Brice (additional dialogue)
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Release Date:
24 August 1944 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Musical | Romance more
Tagline:
JANE FRAZEE at her singiest! BOB CROSBY at his bestest! ENTERTAINMENT at its entertaining-est! more
Plot:
Polly, an amiable wisecracking piano teacher, becomes involved with some shady music publishers. She... more | add synopsis
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We've heard this song before. more

Cast

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Joan Davis ... Polly Jasper
Bob Crosby ... Jimmy
Jane Frazee ... Eileen Hasbrook
Erik Rolf ... Dr. Henry Talbot
Tim Ryan ... Dave Clark
Robert Emmett Keane ... Joe Lathim
The Williams Brothers ... Speciality Performers
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Additional Details

Runtime:
71 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved

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Soundtrack:
KANSAS CITY KITTY more

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We've heard this song before., 15 December 2006

Polly Jasper (Joan Davis) opens a piano-lesson school next door to the music-publishing firm of Latham (Robert Emmett Keane) & Clark (Tim Ryan), publishers of a hit song, "Kansas City Kitty," written by a phony cowboy "Chaps" Wiliker (Johnny Bond.)

Actually, the song was written by Walter Donaldson and Edgar Leslie but Bond's character, for purposes of the plot, gets the credit. Latham and Clark sell the business to Polly and her friend, Eileen Hasbrook (Jane Frazee), only an hour before Oscar Lee (Matt Willis) files suit claiming that "Kansas City Kitty" was stolen from his song, "Minnesota Minnie." This leads to about 40 minutes of Joan Davis hysterics, offset by some songs from Jane Frazee, Bob Crosby and The Williams Brothers, featuring the young Andy Williams, when his voice was still at a range in which he could dub non-singing actresses such as Lauren Bacall.

In court, Polly plays several classics to prove that although "Kansas City Kitty" may have been stolen from "Minnesota Minnie," the latter was, in turn, stolen from an old-time composer.

But, with a lot of familiar faces from Columbia's short subjects, the 63 minutes goes by rather rapidly and there were worse films around in 1944 (and 2006) than "Kansas City Kitty."

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