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Naughty But Nice

  • 19391939
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 29m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
351
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Gale Page, Dick Powell, and Ann Sheridan in Naughty But Nice (1939)
ComedyMusicMusical
Professor Hardwick teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze. He has written a rhapsody which he takes to New York to be published. Staying with his Aunt ... Read allProfessor Hardwick teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze. He has written a rhapsody which he takes to New York to be published. Staying with his Aunt Martha, he is surrounded by swing and after a few drinks, he is photographed hanging on th... Read allProfessor Hardwick teaches at Winfield College and detests the new swing music that is the craze. He has written a rhapsody which he takes to New York to be published. Staying with his Aunt Martha, he is surrounded by swing and after a few drinks, he is photographed hanging on the chandelier. He finds that he can only sell his rhapsody to Eddie and Miss McKay puts lyr... Read all
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
351
YOUR RATING
    • Ray Enright
    • Richard Macaulay(screenplay)
    • Jerry Wald(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Dick Powell
    • Ann Sheridan
    • Gale Page
    • Ray Enright
    • Richard Macaulay(screenplay)
    • Jerry Wald(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Dick Powell
    • Ann Sheridan
    • Gale Page
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    • 15User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    Dick Powell and Ann Sheridan in Naughty But Nice (1939)
    Gale Page, Dick Powell, and Ann Sheridan in Naughty But Nice (1939)
    Dick Powell and Ann Sheridan in Naughty But Nice (1939)
    Gale Page and Dick Powell in Naughty But Nice (1939)

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    Dick Powell
    Dick Powell
    • Professor Donald Hardwick
    Ann Sheridan
    Ann Sheridan
    • Zelda Manion
    Gale Page
    Gale Page
    • Linda McKay
    Helen Broderick
    Helen Broderick
    • Aunt Martha Hogan
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    • Ed Clark
    Allen Jenkins
    Allen Jenkins
    • Joe Dirk
    Zasu Pitts
    Zasu Pitts
    • Aunt Penelope Hardwick
    Maxie Rosenbloom
    Maxie Rosenbloom
    • Killer
    • (as Maxie Rosenblum)
    Jerry Colonna
    Jerry Colonna
    • Allie Gray
    Luis Alberni
    Luis Alberni
    • Stanislaus Pysinski
    Vera Lewis
    Vera Lewis
    • Aunt Annabella Hardwick
    Elizabeth Dunne
    • Aunt Henrietta Hardwick
    William B. Davidson
    William B. Davidson
    • Sam' Hudson
    • (as Bill Davidson)
    Granville Bates
    Granville Bates
    • Judge
    Halliwell Hobbes
    Halliwell Hobbes
    • Dean Burton
    Arthur Berkeley
    • Courtroom Spectator
    • (uncredited)
    Sidney Bracey
    Sidney Bracey
    • Professor
    • (uncredited)
    Ralph Brooks
    • Nightclub Patron
    • (uncredited)
      • Ray Enright
      • Richard Macaulay(screenplay)
      • Jerry Wald(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      This film's earliest documented telecast took place in Tucson Monday 24 September 1956 on KDWI (Channel 9); it first aired in Albuquerque Saturday 6 October 1956 on KOAT (Channel 7), in Salt Lake City Saturday 20 October 1956 on KUTV (Channel 2), in Phoenix Tuesday 23 October 1956 on KVOS (Channel 12), in Boston Friday 26 October 1956 on WBZ (Channel 4), in Sacramento CA Monday 12 November 1956 on KCRA (Channel 3), and in Portland OR Sunday 24 March 1957 on KOIN (Channel 6).
    • Quotes

      Aunt Henrietta Hardwick: We flew.

      Aunt Annabella Hardwick: By airplane.

      Aunt Martha Hogan: You three would look more at home on broomsticks.

    • Connections
      Referenced in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
    • Soundtracks
      Liebestraum No. 3 (A Dream of Love)
      (uncredited)

      Music by Franz Liszt

      Played by an unidentified pianist in Aunt Martha's house

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    A Disappointment All Round...
    As a Dick Powell fan, the premise of this picture sounded great: a college music professor, despite his disapproval of "swing" music, ends up becoming the best-selling composer on the pop hit parade. The comic opportunities in this scenario, not to mention Powell's mellifluous singing voice, are needlessly squandered however--no doubt this movie disappointed Powell's fans back in '39 as much as it did this viewer in 2001.

    The story promises great things and delivers on none of them:

    Powell writes hit songs with a beautiful lyricist, but we never see them working together. Powell never even sings in this picture, despite 5 new songs by the same team (Johnny Mercer & Harry Warren) who gave us "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" which Powell crooned to Olivia de Havilland in the previous year's "Hard to Get".

    They don't even let Dick Powell BE Dick Powell: he plays a nerdy guy lacking in social grace and appeal--and two women vie for his attention. Granted, Powell plays a convincing, somewhat lovable "four-eyed" geek, but the plot keeps hinting that, with a few potent "lemonades", he's a dancing dynamo and the life of the party! But everytime he heads out to the dance floor to strut his stuff there's a fade out and we only find out what a blast he had the night before from an item in the newspaper.

    What great fun it might have been if the college prof learned to sing, swing and love. But he stays a nerd, writes hit tunes reluctantly and ends up with the girl formulaically without a spark between them. [Sigh...]
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    • Release date
      • July 1, 1939 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros.
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    • 1 hour 29 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Mono

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