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The Vagabond Lover ()

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A zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader.
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Rudy Bronson
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Jean Whitehall
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Ethel Bertha Whitehall
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Chief of Police George C. Tuttle
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Mrs. Whittington Todhunter
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Sport (as Eddie Nugent)
Danny O'Shea ...
Sam
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Jay Stein - Grant's Manager
The Connecticut Yankees ...
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Party Guest (uncredited)
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Musicale Guest (uncredited)
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Orphan (uncredited)
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Orphan (uncredited)
Sherry Hall ...
NBC Radio Announcer (uncredited)
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Stevens - Reporter (uncredited)
Norman Peck ...
Swiftie (uncredited)
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Mrs. Whitehall's Maid (uncredited)
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Ted Grant (uncredited)

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Marshall Neilan

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James Ashmore Creelman ... (by)

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William LeBaron ... producer
Louis Sarecky ... associate producer

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Leo Tover ... (photographed by)

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Arthur Roberts ... film editor

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Max Rée

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Walter Plunkett ... (uncredited)

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Wallace Fox ... assistant director (uncredited)

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John E. Tribby ... recordist (as John Tribby)

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Victor Baravalle ... musical director (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

College senior Rudy Bronson forms a band with other students and decides to take them to the Long Island home of Ted Grant, his mail order saxophone teacher. Grant and his manager, however, annoyed at Rudy's persistent attempts for admittance, flee to the city. The band makes one last attempt to enter the house by breaking down the door, but they are witnessed by the neighbor, Mrs. Whitehall and her charming niece Jean, who call the police thinking they are burglars. Sport, one of the band members, tells the policeman that Rudy is the famous Ted Grant and lost his key, and Rudy goes along with the deception to avoid jail. Rudy then accepts Mrs. Whitehall's invitation to perform at her upcoming benefit for orphans, because he has fallen in love with Jean. But what will happen, he worries, when Jean finds out the truth. Written by Arthur Hausner

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Taglines He Sings!- and all the world becomes an Enchanted Land of Moonlit Nights where Lovers dwell and Blood Red Lips plead for kisses! Never before, from the dim pages of antiquity to today, has a singer captured the applause of the world as has this modest lad, this blond boy who sings of love and tender passions.(Print Ad-Pittsburgh Press,((Pittsburgh, Penna.)) 29 December 1929) See more »
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Also Known As
  • El amante vagabundo (Spain)
  • O Amoroso Errante (Brazil)
  • Jazztrubaduren (Sweden)
  • O alitis vasilias (Greece)
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  • 65 min
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Trivia Rudy Vallee's movie debut. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Birth of a Titan (1987). See more »
Soundtracks I Love You, Believe Me, I Love You See more »
Quotes Opening Title Card: Every small town has its small town band with big town ideas.
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