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6.4/10   101 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Monte Brice (writer)
Edmund L. Hartmann (writer)
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Release Date:
29 August 1947 (USA) more
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Plot:
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity)... more | add synopsis
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Cheap looking tour of Paramount Studios. more (4 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Mary Hatcher ... Catherine Brown

Olga San Juan ... Amber La Vonne

DeForest Kelley ... Bob Kirby
Frank Ferguson ... R.J. O'Connell
Glenn Tryon ... Bill Farris
Nella Walker ... Mrs. Webster
Torben Meyer ... Andre (Brown Derby headwaiter)
Jack Norton ... Busboy at Brown Derby
Elaine Riley ... Cashier (Brown Derby)
Charles Victor ... Mr. O'Connell's assistant
Gus Taute ... Assistant's assistant
Harry Hayden ... Manager, Grauman's Chinese

Bing Crosby ... Himself

Bob Hope ... Himself

Gary Cooper ... Himself
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Additional Details

Runtime:
93 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor) (cartoon sequence) | Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Under contract to different record labels at the time - Bing Crosby at Decca and Bob Hope at Capitol - the duo could not produce for the marketplace a disc of their specialty number from the film, "Harmony" (music by Jimmy Van Heusen, lyrics by Johnny Burke). Decca, taking another tune from the score, united Bing with his frequent recording partners, The Andrews Sisters, for a best-selling single of the jaunty city song, "Tallahassee" (music and lyrics by Frank Loesser), a ditty introduced in the picture by Dorothy Lamour and the usually non-singing Alan Ladd. On a Capitol 78, Johnny Mercer teamed with The King Cole Trio for their take on "Harmony." more
Movie Connections:
References The Lost Weekend (1945) more
Soundtrack:
HE CAN WALTZ more

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2 out of 8 people found the following review useful.
Cheap looking tour of Paramount Studios., 3 June 2000
1/10
Author: David Matthews (dmatthews03@hotmail.com) from Toronto, Canada

There's plenty of stars in this homage to Variety clubs international but precious little entertainment. A poor script and shoddy production values make this movie look as though it was shot over weekends on whatever sets happened to be available. Painful to sit through at times with dated comedy routines that were probably not very funny even at the time. Of the performers Pearl Bailey does a not bad musical number, and Bing Crosby and Bob Hope come the closest to being funny.

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