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Everybody Sing

  • 19381938
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 31m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
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Judy Garland, Fanny Brice, and Allan Jones in Everybody Sing (1938)
Judy Bellaire is the center of trouble at her exclusive private and very conservative school. She is expelled when she starts singing in a Jazzy style in her music class. Mayhem ensues as she returns home to her actress mother, playwright father, dysfunctional Russian maid and tries out as a black face singer in a musical.
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Judy Bellaire (Judy Garland) is the center of trouble at her exclusive, very conservative private school. She is expelled when she starts singing in a jazzy style in her music class. Mayhem ... Read allJudy Bellaire (Judy Garland) is the center of trouble at her exclusive, very conservative private school. She is expelled when she starts singing in a jazzy style in her music class. Mayhem ensues as she returns home to her actress mother, playwright father and dysfunctional Russ... Read allJudy Bellaire (Judy Garland) is the center of trouble at her exclusive, very conservative private school. She is expelled when she starts singing in a jazzy style in her music class. Mayhem ensues as she returns home to her actress mother, playwright father and dysfunctional Russian maid (Fanny Brice) and tries out as a blackface singer in a musical.
IMDb RATING
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626
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    • Edwin L. Marin
  • Writers
    • Florence Ryerson(original story by)
    • Edgar Allan Woolf(original story by)
    • James Gruen(additional dialogue by)
  • Stars
    • Allan Jones
    • Judy Garland
    • Fanny Brice
    • Edwin L. Marin
  • Writers
    • Florence Ryerson(original story by)
    • Edgar Allan Woolf(original story by)
    • James Gruen(additional dialogue by)
  • Stars
    • Allan Jones
    • Judy Garland
    • Fanny Brice
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 19User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
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    Judy Garland in Everybody Sing (1938)
    Lynne Carver and Reginald Gardiner in Everybody Sing (1938)
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    Everybody Sing (1938)
    Judy Garland and Lynne Carver in Everybody Sing (1938)
    Lynne Carver and Reginald Gardiner in Everybody Sing (1938)
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    Judy Garland and Allan Jones in Everybody Sing (1938)
    Judy Garland, Billie Burke, Fanny Brice, Lynne Carver, Allan Jones, and Reginald Owen in Everybody Sing (1938)
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    Allan Jones
    Allan Jones
    • Ricky Saboni
    Judy Garland
    Judy Garland
    • Judy Bellaire
    Fanny Brice
    Fanny Brice
    • Olga Chekaloff
    Reginald Owen
    Reginald Owen
    • Hillary Bellaire
    Billie Burke
    Billie Burke
    • Diana Bellaire
    Reginald Gardiner
    Reginald Gardiner
    • Jerrold Hope
    Lynne Carver
    Lynne Carver
    • Sylvia Bellaire
    Helen Troy
    Helen Troy
    • Hillary's Secretary
    Monty Woolley
    Monty Woolley
    • John Fleming
    Adia Kuznetzoff
    • Boris
    Henry Armetta
    Henry Armetta
    • Signor Vittorino
    Michelette Burani
    Michelette Burani
    • Madame Le Brouchette
    Mary Forbes
    Mary Forbes
    • Miss Colvin
    Bonnie Bannon
    Bonnie Bannon
    • Showgirl
    • (uncredited)
    Ann Bupp
    • Minor Role
    • (uncredited)
    Elise Cavanna
    • Colvin's Music Teacher
    • (uncredited)
    Edgar Dearing
    Edgar Dearing
    • Police Lt. at Desk
    • (uncredited)
    James Donlan
    James Donlan
    • Stage Doorman
    • (uncredited)
      • Edwin L. Marin
    • Writers
      • Florence Ryerson(original story by) (screen play by)
      • Edgar Allan Woolf(original story by) (screen play by)
      • James Gruen(additional dialogue by)
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    • Trivia
      A boys' choir was used to provide the singing voices for the schoolgirl chorus that backs Judy on her numbers.
    • Goofs
      When Judy Bellaire is escaping from the ship, she hides inside a container. Two workers place the container on the dock. Just before she opens the container lid to climb out, a second container appears just behind her.
    • Quotes

      Olga Chekaloff: You make trouble for me? How do you like that? In Russia I vas bitten by a volfhound, my mother vas lost in a snowstorm, my father vas sent to Siberia, your mother and father are yelling their heads off, you sister's taking her singing lessons, I've got exactly four squabs and I can't find out how many's for dinner! And you're gonna make trouble for me?

    • Connections
      Edited into Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Judy Garland (1996)
    • Soundtracks
      Swing Mr. Mendelssohn
      (1937)

      (also known as "Swing Mister Mendelssohn")

      Music by Bronislau Kaper and Walter Jurmann

      Lyrics by Gus Kahn

      Sung by Judy Garland (uncredited) and the St. Brendan's Boy Choir (uncredited)

      Conducted by Robert Mitchell (uncredited)

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    7/10
    ...........And Just About the Whole Cast Does
    Allan Jones and Judy Garland star in one of those wacky backstage musicals that Warner Brothers was better known for in Everybody Sing. With a very talented cast doing the shtick they do best, Everybody Sings comes out as great entertainment.

    The only weakness in this film and it's a big one is the lack of any memorable songs. The best known one in the film is Cosi Cosa which Allan Jones had originally introduced in A Night At the Opera and he sings a couple of lines of, here. The stuff written for the film directly just doesn't measure up.

    If Judy doesn't put on a show as she usually does with Mickey Rooney, she does agree to star in a show to help her family who is going bankrupt. Her father is playwright Reginald Owen and her mother is actress Billie Burke who next year Garland would work with in The Wizard of Oz. Burke is one extravagant ham of an actress who is constantly reciting old play dialog in every given situation and she's very funny. Her extravagance is also driving Owen to the poor house.

    Employed at this house are cook Allan Jones who also sings at a nightclub during the evening and Fanny Brice. I can't quite decide who's funnier in this film, Burke or Brice. It's a good thing that Jones and Garland were the singers that they are because as straight players they could never have held a scene from either of these women.

    Everybody Sing is a great opportunity to see the great Fanny Brice perform. The image we have of her is from Funny Girl and Funny Lady and it's nice to see the real deal. Also Reginald Gardiner is quite good as a ham actor who's courting Lynne Carver, Garland's older sister who Jones is sweet on.

    I only wish some memorable songs came from this film it would have achieved greatness if some had.
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    • Aug 14, 2007

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    • Release date
      • February 4, 1938 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • 1 hour 31 minutes
      • Black and White

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