Everybody Sing (film)
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| Directed by | Edwin L. Marin |
| Produced by | Harry Rapf |
| Written by |
Add'l dialogue: James Gruen Milton Merlin (uncredited) Contributing: Bert Kalmar (uncredited) Harry Ruby (uncredited) Dalton Trumbo (uncredited) |
| Screenplay by |
Florence Ryerson Edgar Allan Woolf |
| Story by | Florence Ryerson Edgar Allan Woolf |
| Starring |
Allan Jones Judy Garland Fanny Brice |
| Music by | {see article} |
| Cinematography | Joseph Ruttenberg |
| Edited by | William S. Gray |
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| Distributed by | Loew's Inc. |
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80 or 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $795,000 |
| Box office | $1,003,000 |
Everybody Sing is a 1938 American musical comedy film starring Allan Jones, Judy Garland, and Fanny Brice, and featuring Reginald Owen and Billie Burke. The film was a significant step in Garland's career.
Young Judy Bellaire (Judy Garland) 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, Sylvia (Lynne Carver) 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 Sylvia. 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 record, 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 notes
Allan Jones introduces in Everybody Sing the pop standard "The One I Love", with lyrics by Gus Kahn and music by Bronisław Kaper and Walter Jurmann. The film also includes three other songs from the same composing team: "(Down On) Melody Farm," "Swing Mr. Mendelssohn," and "The Show Must Go On". The music and lyrics for "Quainty, Dainty Me" and "Snooks (Why? Because!)" are by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby. The "Snooks" number is based on the character "Baby Snooks" played on Broadway and on the radio by Brice. The St. Brendan's Boys Choir, directed by Robert Mitchell, provided the singing voices for the schoolgirl chorus that backs Judy on her numbers.
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