Ladies' Man (1947)

Director:

William D. Russell

Writers:

William Bowers (short story) and
Robinson Holbert (short story) ...

Release Date:

7 February 1947 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

HE'S A MAN ABOUT TOWN (Population: 253)

Plot:

A boy from the country inherits $10 million, and decides to go to New York City to live it up.

Plot Keywords:

Subway | Millionaire | Radio | Uncle | Farm

Cast

Eddie Bracken	...	Henry Haskell
Cass Daley	...	Geraldine Ryan
Virginia Welles	...	Jean Mitchell
Spike Jones	...	Himself - City Slicker Band Leader
Johnny Coy	...	Johnny O'Connor
Virginia Field	...	Gladys Hayden
Lewis L. Russell	...	David Harmon (as Lewis Russell)
Georges Renavent	...	Mr. Jones, Hotel Manager
Roberta Jonay	...	Miss Miller, Telephone Operator

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Certification:

USA:Approved

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

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.

Soundtrack:

Hotcha Cornia

Entertaining musical

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It would appear from the lack of votes cast for this film that this is a very rarely seen film.Since i enjoy Cass Daley and Spike Jones i decided to buy a video copy of this film.I think that the last time i saw this was about 30 years ago on BBC2.It is a cheerful loud film with a lot of enjoyable musical numbers.Now whether you enjoy them depends upon whether you like Cass Daley or Spike Jones.Eddie Bracken plays the same bumbling hayseed that he plays in virtually all the films he made for Paramount.The plot ,such as it is ,revolves around Bracken becoming an overnight oil millionaire and going to New York to spend his money.When he receives unwelcome publicity over the radio then every girl wants to meet him and spend his money.\anyway an enjoyable 90minutes