This is one of my favorite movie musicals partly because one of the stars, Jack Buchanan, was an old friend of my family. I met him once, backstage in a London theater, in the fall of 1945.
Thereby hangs a tale. The Bandwagon plot centers around a musical production of the Faust legend which was a flop and had to be completely rewritten; then, it was a hit. It is little known that 32 years earlier, in 1921, Jack Buchanan took part in a revue entitled "Faust on Toast" which did not do well, so it was taken off for a month and then restaged in a new version. It certainly looks as if Jack had a word in the ears of the writers of "The Bandwagon". It was his last major picture and he died in 1957.
Thereby hangs a tale. The Bandwagon plot centers around a musical production of the Faust legend which was a flop and had to be completely rewritten; then, it was a hit. It is little known that 32 years earlier, in 1921, Jack Buchanan took part in a revue entitled "Faust on Toast" which did not do well, so it was taken off for a month and then restaged in a new version. It certainly looks as if Jack had a word in the ears of the writers of "The Bandwagon". It was his last major picture and he died in 1957.