Harriet Hilliard looked a good bet for stardom. She was pretty and a lovely singer. In "Follow the Fleet" she proved she could emote. But she was obviously happier as a band singer and she married orchestra leader Ozzie Nelson.
In a plot eerily similar to "The Producers" Lester Cowan plays Robert Hunt, a crooked producer, who finds it financially more rewarding only to put on flops. He then collects the profits and leaves the investors in the lurch. He explains it in the film.
Jimmy (William Brady) and Pat (Harriet Hilliard) have a great idea - a show featuring new faces and fresh talent. With Pat's $15,000 inheritance they think the show will be great. Hunt is skipping town and leaves Milton Berle in charge (thinking that he will keep to the tried and true method - hiring only the talentless.) But Berle, who is also a backer and smitten with Pat, wants to put on a good show.
There is a lot of talent. A man who impersonates a woman having a bath and Derry Deane, a Shirley Temple look-a-like who plays the violin. Lorraine Krueger is Suzy, a sparkling blonde who does a snappy tap dance routine during auditions - "It Goes to Your Feet".
Beautiful Frances Gifford is introduced in the finale. Ann Miller is introduced as "our new dancing discovery" - boy could she dance - it was over all too soon. This film could have done with more of her and Lorraine Krueger and less of the "funny" men. At least in "Radio City Revels" (1938)(a companion film to this one with some of the same cast) Ann Miller had the female lead.
Joe Penner's name doesn't mean anything to me - but I can remember a little bald guy named Egghead, who appeared in some cartoons and had a lot of the same expressions and mannerisms.
For RKO Radio in the late 30s (not including the Astaire/Rogers films) this was a splashy musical.
In a plot eerily similar to "The Producers" Lester Cowan plays Robert Hunt, a crooked producer, who finds it financially more rewarding only to put on flops. He then collects the profits and leaves the investors in the lurch. He explains it in the film.
Jimmy (William Brady) and Pat (Harriet Hilliard) have a great idea - a show featuring new faces and fresh talent. With Pat's $15,000 inheritance they think the show will be great. Hunt is skipping town and leaves Milton Berle in charge (thinking that he will keep to the tried and true method - hiring only the talentless.) But Berle, who is also a backer and smitten with Pat, wants to put on a good show.
There is a lot of talent. A man who impersonates a woman having a bath and Derry Deane, a Shirley Temple look-a-like who plays the violin. Lorraine Krueger is Suzy, a sparkling blonde who does a snappy tap dance routine during auditions - "It Goes to Your Feet".
Beautiful Frances Gifford is introduced in the finale. Ann Miller is introduced as "our new dancing discovery" - boy could she dance - it was over all too soon. This film could have done with more of her and Lorraine Krueger and less of the "funny" men. At least in "Radio City Revels" (1938)(a companion film to this one with some of the same cast) Ann Miller had the female lead.
Joe Penner's name doesn't mean anything to me - but I can remember a little bald guy named Egghead, who appeared in some cartoons and had a lot of the same expressions and mannerisms.
For RKO Radio in the late 30s (not including the Astaire/Rogers films) this was a splashy musical.