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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Eleanor Powell | ... | Nora Paige | |
| James Stewart | ... | Ted Barker | |
| Virginia Bruce | ... | Lucy James | |
| Una Merkel | ... | Jenny Saks | |
| Sid Silvers | ... | 'Gunny' Saks | |
| Frances Langford | ... | 'Peppy' Turner | |
| Raymond Walburn | ... | Captain Dingby | |
| Alan Dinehart | ... | McKay | |
| Buddy Ebsen | ... | 'Mush' Tracy | |
| Juanita Quigley | ... | Sally Saks | |
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Georges | ... | Georges |
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Jalna | ... | Jalna |
| Reginald Gardiner | ... | Policeman | |
| Barnett Parker | ... | Floorwalker | |
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J. Marshall Smith | ... | Member of The Foursome |
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Sailor Ted meets at the Lonely Hearts Club of his friend Gunny's wife, Jenny, a girl, Nora Paige, and falls in love. Nora wants to become a dancer on Broadway. Ted rescues the Pekinese of Lucy James, a Broadway star during a public relations campaign on his submarine. Lucy falls in love with Ted, and Ted is ordered by his Captain to meet her in a night club, in spite of the fact that he has a date with Nora. Nora, who lives with Jenny and her and Gunny's daughter, doesn't want to hear anything from Ted, after she spotted a picture of Ted and Lucy in the morning paper. Lucy convinces her manager Dinehart to stop the press campaign and tells him that she would leave the production, if another photo or article of her and Ted is published. Nora has become her understudy, and she begins to think her behaviour to Ted over. Suddenly she is fired after Dinehart told her to dance a number Lucy James called undanceable. But when Ted is told the whole story, he knows what to do. Written by Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
27 November 1936 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
L'amiral mène la danse See more »Filming Locations:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA See more »Edit
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Gunny Saks: Oh, but I got to get ashore. I want to see my wife.
Ship's Officer: Your wife?
Gunny Saks: Yeah, I haven't seen her for four years.
Ship's Officer: Who'd marry you?
Gunny Saks: A minister.
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(1936) (uncredited)
(Also called "Swinging the Jinx Away")
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Played during the opening credits
Sung by Frances Langford, Buddy Ebsen, The Foursome and male chorus
Danced by Buddy Ebsen and Eleanor Powell
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Ship's Officer: Not granted.Gunny Saks: Oh, but I got to get ashore. I want to see my wife.
Ship's Officer: Your wife?
Gunny Saks: Yeah, I haven't seen her for four years.
Ship's Officer: Who'd marry you?
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Swingin' the Jinx Away(1936) (uncredited)
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Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Played during the opening credits
Sung by Frances Langford, Buddy Ebsen, The Foursome and male chorus
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This is one of the all-time corny movies ever made, especially since it features Jimmy Stewart singing. How often have you seen/heard that? Actually, the "corn" is the fun of this film, and I enjoyed watching this more the second time knowing it was going to be so corny. Some of the lines in here are legitimately funny, particularly by cute Una Merkel, who could zing 'em with the best. She was fun, as was her husband in here, "Gunny Sacks," played by Sid Silvers. Those two, plus Buddy Ebsen and Eleanor Powell make for a likable cast. Both Powell and Ebsen were great dancers, too, with Powell, of course, being the more famous. This is just a nice, old- fashioned film, probably more for older folks, but who knows?