Sing, Baby, Sing
- Released on
- Runtime
- 90 mins
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]).
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]).
Cast
- Alice Faye
- Adolphe Menjou
- Gregory Ratoff
- Patsy Kelly
- Ted Healy
- Michael Whalen
- Al Ritz
- Jimmy Ritz
- Harry Ritz
- Montagu Love
- Dixie Dunbar
- Douglas Fowley
- Paul Stanton
- Tony Martin
- Monica Bannister
- Bonnie Bannon
- Lynn Bari
- John Bleifer
- Stanley Blystone
- George Chandler
- Diane Cook
- Pauline Craig
- Lester Dorr
- Virginia Field
- Bess Flowers
- June Gale
- Arthur Hoyt
- Selmer Jackson
- DeWitt Jennings
- Jerry Larkin
- Sam McDaniel
- Paul McVey
- Lucille Miller
- Carroll Nye
- William H. O'Brien
- Lillian Porter
- Cully Richards
- Tom Ricketts
- Donna Mae Roberts
- Don Rowan
- Ernie Stanton
- Charles Tannen
- Julius Tannen
- Dale Van Sickel
- Poppy Wilde
- June Wilkins
- Eric Wilton
- Helen Wood
- Wanda Perry
Director
- Sidney Lanfield
Producers
- Darryl F. Zanuck
