Everybody Sing (film)
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Everybody Sing is a 1938 musical comedy film starring Judy Garland
, Allan Jones, Fanny Brice
, Reginald Owen
and Billie Burke
.
) has trouble fitting in at school, causing trouble by introducing her jazzy style into music class and being expelled as a result. Returning home to her dysfunctional and financially challenged family, where her playwright father, actress mother, and beautiful elder sister compete for attention along with the funny Russian maid, Olga (Fanny Brice
) and the hunky cook, Ricky (Allan Jones), who is not-so-secretly in love with Judy's elder sister, Sylvia (Lynne Carver
). Judy foils her father's attempt to ship her off to Europe by escaping from the ship and then trying out for a musical show as a blackface singer, taking advantage of her love of jazz to enchant the show's producer, who hires her and makes her a star of his new show. Meanwhile, Ricky cuts a personal album musically expressing his love for Sylvia. Nevertheless, Sylvia is forced into engagement with another man.
When the distraught parents discover their younger daughter is appearing in a musical show, Sylvia rejoins her love, who is also appearing in the show. Finally, all the cast members are reunited, including the Russian maid, who finds her lost love, Boris. The movie's happy ending includes an extravagant stage piece with gorgeously attired chorus girls, happily reunited parents and child, and the happy kiss between Sylvia and Ricky, who is now the producer of a successful musical show.
, with lyrics by Gus Kahn
and music by Bronisław Kaper and Walter Jurmann
. The film includes three other songs from the same composing team: "(Down On) Melody Farm," "Swing Mr. Mendelssohn," and "The Show Must Go On". The St. Brendan's Boys Choir provided the singing voices for the schoolgirl chorus that backs Judy on her numbers.
Judy Garland
Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...
, Allan Jones, Fanny Brice
Fanny Brice
Fanny Brice was a popular and influential American illustrated song "model," comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show...
, Reginald Owen
Reginald Owen
John Reginald Owen was a British character actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American movies and later in television programs.-Personal:...
and Billie Burke
Billie Burke
Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke was an American actress. She is primarily known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live...
.
Plot
Young Judy Bellaire (Judy GarlandJudy Garland
Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage...
) has trouble fitting in at school, causing trouble by introducing her jazzy style into music class and being expelled as a result. Returning home to her dysfunctional and financially challenged family, where her playwright father, actress mother, and beautiful elder sister compete for attention along with the funny Russian maid, Olga (Fanny Brice
Fanny Brice
Fanny Brice was a popular and influential American illustrated song "model," comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show...
) and the hunky cook, Ricky (Allan Jones), who is not-so-secretly in love with Judy's elder sister, Sylvia (Lynne Carver
Lynne Carver
Lynne Carver was an American film actress. She appeared in 42 films between 1934 and 1953.Actress Lynne Carver was born Virginia Reid Sampson on September 13, 1916, in Douglas, Arizona...
). Judy foils her father's attempt to ship her off to Europe by escaping from the ship and then trying out for a musical show as a blackface singer, taking advantage of her love of jazz to enchant the show's producer, who hires her and makes her a star of his new show. Meanwhile, Ricky cuts a personal album musically expressing his love for Sylvia. Nevertheless, Sylvia is forced into engagement with another man.
When the distraught parents discover their younger daughter is appearing in a musical show, Sylvia rejoins her love, who is also appearing in the show. Finally, all the cast members are reunited, including the Russian maid, who finds her lost love, Boris. The movie's happy ending includes an extravagant stage piece with gorgeously attired chorus girls, happily reunited parents and child, and the happy kiss between Sylvia and Ricky, who is now the producer of a successful musical show.
Cast
| Allan Jones | Richard "Ricky" Saboni |
| Judy Garland Judy Garland Judy Garland was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years and for her renowned contralto voice, she attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage... |
Judy Bellaire |
| Fanny Brice Fanny Brice Fanny Brice was a popular and influential American illustrated song "model," comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances and is known as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show... |
Olga Chekaloff |
| Reginald Owen Reginald Owen John Reginald Owen was a British character actor. He was known for his many roles in British and American movies and later in television programs.-Personal:... |
Hillary Bellaire |
| Billie Burke Billie Burke Mary William Ethelbert Appleton "Billie" Burke was an American actress. She is primarily known to modern audiences as Glinda the Good Witch of the North in the musical film The Wizard of Oz. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live... |
Diana Bellaire |
| Reginald Gardiner Reginald Gardiner Reginald Gardiner was an English-born actor in film and television and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in Britain. His parents wanted him to be an architect and he studied at it but he wanted to be an actor and eventually got his way.He started as a super on stage and eventually... |
Jerrold Hope |
| Lynne Carver Lynne Carver Lynne Carver was an American film actress. She appeared in 42 films between 1934 and 1953.Actress Lynne Carver was born Virginia Reid Sampson on September 13, 1916, in Douglas, Arizona... |
Sylvia Bellaire |
| Helen Troy | Hillary's secretary |
| Monty Woolley Monty Woolley Monty Woolley was an American stage, film, radio, and television actor. At the age of 50, he achieved a measure of stardom for his best-known role in the stage play and 1942 film The Man Who Came to Dinner... |
John "Jack" Fleming |
| Adia Kuznetzoff | Boris, the bus driver |
| Henry Armetta Henry Armetta Henry Armetta was an Italian movie character actor who appeared in at least 150 films, starting in silents as early as 1915 to a movie released in 1946, after his death.-Biography:... |
Signor Giovanni Vittorino, Cafe Nappo |
| Michelette Burani | Madame Le Brouchette |
| Mary Forbes Mary Forbes Mary Forbes was an English film actress. She appeared in over 130 films between 1919 and 1958.... |
Miss Colvin |
Music
In this film Allan Jones introduces the pop standard "The One I Love"The One I Love (Allan Jones song)
"The One I Love" is a popular song.The music was written by Bronisław Kaper and Walter Jurmann, the lyrics by Gus Kahn. The song was published in 1937, and appeared in the 1938 film Everybody Sing, starring Allan Jones, Judy Garland, and Fanny Brice. In the film the song was sung by Allan Jones...
, with lyrics by Gus Kahn
Gus Kahn
Gustav Gerson Kahn was a musician, songwriter and lyricist.-Biography:Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1886. The family emigrated from there to the United States and moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1890...
and music by Bronisław Kaper and Walter Jurmann
Walter Jurmann
Walter Jurmann was an Austrian-born composer of popular music renowned for his versatility who, after emigrating to the United States, specialized in film scores and soundtracks....
. The film includes three other songs from the same composing team: "(Down On) Melody Farm," "Swing Mr. Mendelssohn," and "The Show Must Go On". The St. Brendan's Boys Choir provided the singing voices for the schoolgirl chorus that backs Judy on her numbers.