Everybody Sing (1938)

Judy Bellaire, played by Judy Garland, 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 ... See full summary »

Director:

Edwin L. Marin

Writers:

Florence Ryerson (original story by), Edgar Allan Woolf (original story by)

Stars:

Allan Jones, Judy Garland, Fanny Brice

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Allan Jones	...	Ricky Saboni
Judy Garland	...	Judy Bellaire
Fanny Brice	...	Olga Chekaloff
Reginald Owen	...	Hillary Bellaire
Billie Burke	...	Diana Bellaire
Reginald Gardiner	...	Jerrold Hope
Lynne Carver	...	Sylvia Bellaire
Helen Troy	...	Hillary's Secretary
Monty Woolley	...	John Fleming
Adia Kuznetzoff	...	Boris
Henry Armetta	...	Signor Vittorino
Michelette Burani	...	Madame Le Brouchette
Mary Forbes	...	Miss Colvin

Storyline

Judy Bellaire, played by Judy Garland, 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 (Fanny Brice) and tries out as a black face singer in a musical.

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Plot Keywords:

singer | school | playwright | maid | actress | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Musical | Romance

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Certificate:

Passed

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 February 1938 (USA)

Also Known As:

Diabinho de Saias

Filming Locations:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

A boys choir was used to provide the singing voices for the schoolgirl chorus that backs Judy on her numbers.

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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.

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Quotes

Taxi driver: Look, what about this 2,85? I gotta get going, I've been here twenty minutes already.
Olga Chekaloff: You've been here twenty minutes? I've been here eleven years. I stopped yelling for my money ten years ago.

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Connections

Featured in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic (1990)

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Soundtracks

The First Thing in the Morning
(uncredited)
Composer unknown
Sung by Allan Jones while driving

User Reviews

...........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.