FILMSTSomething to Sing About1937

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How Long Is “Something to Sing About”?

Name: Something to Sing About
Genre: Musical, Romance, comedy
Released: 1937-09-30
Duration: 90 min
Cast: James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart

1h 30m runtime

19371h 30mMusical • Romance • comedy

Musical film with a runtime of 90 minutes, released in 1937. Presented in English.

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Runtime1h 30m

Minutes90

One SittingYes

With Break1h 42m

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Battling Hoofer is the reissue title of the 1936 James Cagney vehicle Something to Sing About. Cagney plays Terry Rooney, a New York bandleader who heads to Hollywood when he is offered a movie contract. The down-to-Earth Rooney resists the "star treatment," an attitude misinterpreted by movie executive Bennett O. Regan (Gene Lockhart) as arrogance. When Terry's first film is a hit, Regan orders everyone involved to keep its success a secret from Terry, lest he develop a swelled head! (We don't believe it either.) The best sequence has Rooney chewing out his Asian houseboy, Ito (Philip Ahn), whereupon he drops his "So solly" pidgin English and begins talking like a Harvard professor! Terry gets to romance newcomer Evelyn Daw, as well as veteran vamp Mona Barrie; he also gets to participate in several lively dance numbers. Something to Sing About was the second of Jimmy Cagney's films for Poverty Row studio Grand National: the production values and snappy script work that he might have enjoyed at Warner Bros. are noticeably lacking, but Cagney is always fun to watch.

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Runtime1h 30m

Can Finish TonightYes

One SittingYes

With Break1h 42m

Movie Facts

Release DateSeptember 30, 1937

Runtime1h 30m

LanguageEnglish

GenresMusical, Romance, comedy

DirectorVictor Schertzinger

ProducerZion Myers

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