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24 September 1944 (USA)
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Grab your partners, folks, and come to the National Barn Dance! more
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Made at the time when the National Barn Dance program, on radio station WLS (for World's Largest Store and owned by Sears & Roebuck) in Chicago...
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Good silly fun.
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jean Heather | ... | Betty |
| Charles Quigley | ... | Johnny Burke |
| Robert Benchley | ... | J.B. Mitcham |
| Mabel Paige | ... | Mrs. Garvey |
| Charles Dingle | ... | Mr. Garvey |
| Pat Buttram | ... | Himself |
| Joe Kelly | ... | Himself |
| Myrtle Wiseman | ... | Herself (as Lulubelle) |
| Scotty Wiseman | ... | Himself (as Scotty) |
| Lou Dinning | ... | Herself (as The Dinning Sisters) |
| Jean Dinning | ... | Herself (as The Dinning Sisters) |
| Ginger Dinning | ... | Herself (as The Dinning Sisters) |
| Frank Kettering | ... | Frank - Bass Fiddle (as Hoosier Hot Shots) |
| Paul Trietsch | ... | Hezziel - Guitar (as Hoosier Hot Shots) |
| Charles Ward | ... | Gabe - Clarinet & Tenor (as Hoosier Hot Shots) |
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76 min
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. However, because of legal complications, this particular title was not included in the original television package and may not have ever been televised.
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Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg
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As a boy of 10, I found this movie great fun when it opened in 1944 at the Lyric Theater in Spearman, Texas. The movie didn't have much plot, as I remember, just lots of music and homespun humor. The main thing was that it had all my little sister's and my favorites--like Pat Buttram, the Hoosier Hotshots, and best of all, Lulubelle and Scotty--from the "National Barn Dance" radio program. Our older sister--a teenager in 1944--thought this WLS-Chicago radio show was corny. I guess it was--and the movie, too--but we were always glad when big sis had a date on Saturday night so that we could hear Lulubelle and Scotty instead of having to listen to "Your Hit Parade." After we saw the "National Barn Dance" movie, the Saturday night battle over what to listen to raged even more violently than it had before.