A bandleader must prove he is worthy of entry into the the Hall of Music in heaven.A bandleader must prove he is worthy of entry into the the Hall of Music in heaven.A bandleader must prove he is worthy of entry into the the Hall of Music in heaven.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 1 win total
Frederick Brady
- Ted Barry
- (as Fred Brady)
Fritz Feld
- Niccolò Paganini
- (uncredited)
Halliwell Hobbes
- Franz Liszt
- (uncredited)
Elmer Jerome
- Official Recorder
- (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
- Johannes Brahms
- (uncredited)
Lionel Royce
- Pyotr Tchaikovsky
- (uncredited)
Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas
- Gabriel
- (uncredited)
William Yetter Sr.
- Richard Wagner
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaTchaikovsky scolds Ted for having used one of his melodies and then says to the Official Recorder to let him "know when that Freddy Martin checks in here (Heaven)". Freddy Martin's biggest hit was "Tonight We Love" in 1941, which heavily borrowed from Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto Number 1 in B-flat Minor. It was such a big hit that Martin began to incorporate melodies from the classics in follow-up songs.
- ConnectionsVersion of It Was a Gay Ballnight (1939)
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Postmodern p.s.
I just caught this movie today on Turner Classic, and it's very sweet - but most noteworthy is the leading man, who's a ringer for the young Bill Clinton (and, this being 1943, with a much better haircut than Bill ever had in the '70s). It's also an eye-opener for anyone who thinks the 1940s were an era of servile deference to the Dead White Euroguys of cultural history; our young bandleader is polite, but he argues tough with the millennium's heavyweight composers, and he scores his points. Recommended.
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- eebyo
- Feb 21, 2004
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- Runtime22 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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