Sing, Baby, Sing
A Mad, Merry, Musical Delight!
- Music
Overview
The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 21, 1936
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
- Cast
- Jimmy Ritz,Paul Stanton,Pauline Craig,Michael Whalen,Harry Ritz,Gregory Ratoff,Paul McVey,Dixie Dunbar,William H. O'Brien,Bonnie Bannonand 39 more
- Director
- Sidney Lanfield
- Producer
- Darryl F. Zanuck
- Cinematography
- J. Peverell Marley
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0028255