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28 September 1956 (USA) morePlot:
Ray Henderson joins Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team... more | add synopsisAwards:
Nominated for Oscar. moreUser Comments:
Bland composer bio in CinemaScope moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gordon MacRae | ... | B.G. 'Buddy' De Sylva |
 | Dan Dailey | ... | Ray Henderson |
 | Ernest Borgnine | ... | Lew Brown |
| Sheree North | ... | Kitty Kane |
| Tommy Noonan | ... | Carl Frisbee |
| Murvyn Vye | ... | Manny Costain |
| Phyllis Avery | ... | Maggie Henderson |
| Larry Keating | ... | Winfield Sheehan |
| Tony Galento | ... | Fingers |
| Norman Brooks | ... | Al Jolson |
| Jacques d'Amboise | ... | Specialty dancer |
| Roxanne Arlen | ... | Perky Nichols |
| Byron Palmer | ... | Hollywood star |
| Linda Brace | ... | Jeannie Henderson |
| Patty Lou Hudson | ... | Susie Henderson |
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This was the swan song of a genre - that of the fictional composer biography - that began with MGM's TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY in 1946. It looks pretty tired now. The unusual writing team of three men (Henderson,Brown and DeSylva) is presented in pretty blase Hollywood terms, even though it's in CinemaScope (Fox used the same title writing and backgrounds as it had for another of its Scope features that year, CAROUSEL). The scoring earned an Oscar nom but it's nothing special. The costumes are lavish and did deserve the nod. This is another of those musicals where you come out humming the costumes. Unremarkable and ordinary. Although you DO get to see and hear Ernest Borgnine sing and dance. Adults are non-plussed at the sight and it makes small children cry.