TAGLINE: Great story with a great ending!

A bandleader and a New York columnist feud over a microphone-shy singer who becomes a star by accident.

Director: Mark Sandrich

Starring: Alice Faye, Jack Haley, Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie
1937 • BW • 91 Minutes

Description:

(1937) Although Winchell and Bernie are prominently featured, the frothy plotline centres on Jack Haley as a would-be radio vocalist and Alice Faye as the singer who encourages him. The sexy and vivacious Faye sings the bouncy title tune. There's a very funny scene in which Haley arrives at the radio station, hoping to audition, when he runs afoul of a sour-tempered studio usher. The usher is played by none other than William Demarest, in his usual mode. It's astonishing to realise that, as late as 1937, Demarest was still playing bit parts like this one ... still, he's very welcome here in his brief scene. Demarest assures Haley that his audition will go well, providing he doesn't get mike fright ... a phenomenon which he then describes to Haley. So, of course, as soon as Haley tries to sing he develops mike fright. There's a delightfully surrealistic sequence in which we see the microphone from Haley's viewpoint, as it morphs into a snarling demon!

> Format: DVD
> Genre: Comedy /Musical
> Label: Nostalgia Merchant
> Originally Released in: 1937
> Run Time: 70 minutes
> Video: Black & White
> Region: Region 0 encoding - playable worldwide
> NTSC-format.