'Musical Ensemble' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Tucson (1949)
Actors:
Walden Boyle (actor),
Paul E. Burns (actor),
The Cass County Boys (actor),
Bert Dodson (actor),
Richard Dumas (actor),
Byron Foulger (actor),
Hal Hackett (actor),
Harry Lauter (actor),
Jimmy Lydon (actor),
Fred S. Martin (actor),
Roger McGee (actor),
Grandon Rhodes (actor),
John Ridgely (actor),
Charles Russell (actor),
Walter Sande (actor),
Plot: Andy Bryant is a University of Arizona student. His grades suffer however because of his preoccupation with an upcoming intercollegiate rodeo. And he is in love with the blond Laurie Sherman. Tod Bryant, Andy's father, is more interested in embarrassing a rival at the rodeo than he is with his son's academic progress. When his lack of focus nearly causes a tragic accident in the university chemistry lab, Andy decides to hunker down and study.
Keywords: 1940s, arena, arizona, b-movie, bulldogging, cheerleader, chemistry-class, cigarette-smoking, city-in-title, co-ed
Genres:
Drama,
Sport,
Western,
Taglines: A High-Riding Round-Up Of ROMANCE, RODEO AND RHYTHM,,,(original print ad-all caps) THE GREAT SOUTHWEST IS THE ALL-AMERICAN CAMPUS NOW...(original print ad-all caps) THE CO-EDS HAVE GONE WEST...YOUNG MAN! (original print ad-all caps) IT'S COWBOYS, CO-EDS AND CUT-UPS WHEN THE WEST GOES COLLEGIATE (original poster-all caps)
It Pays to Be Funny (1947)
Actors:
Godoy's Argentine Band (actor),
Milton Berle (actor),
William Edmunds (actor),
Jules Epailly (actor),
Bob Hope (actor),
Willie Howard (actor),
Henry King (actor),
Bert Lahr (actor),
Robert Shayne (actor),
Mary Cole (actress),
Aileen Cook (actress),
Vicki Cummings (actress),
Frances Halliday (actress),
Gertrude Mudge (actress),
Leah Ray (actress),
Plot: A compilation of four short comedies produced in the 1930's by Al Christie for Educational Pictures Inc., and re-edited into feature film format: Going Spanish (1934), Poppin' the Cork (1933), Off the Horses (1937), and Affairs of Pierre (1937).
Genres:
Comedy,
Copacabana (1947)
Actors:
Chester Clute (actor),
Steve Cochran (actor),
Russo de Pandeiro (actor),
Edgar Dearing (actor),
Igor Dega (actor),
Dick Elliott (actor),
Abel Green (actor),
Kenner G. Kemp (actor),
Groucho Marx (actor),
Bert Moorhouse (actor),
Paul Newlan (actor),
William H. O'Brien (actor),
Lee Phelps (actor),
Raul Reyes (actor),
The Carioca Boys (actor),
Plot: Talent agent Lionel Devereaux sells his girlfriend/client Carmen Novarro to New York City's famous Copacabana nightclub as a Latin-American singer/dancer and, pressed for another act, he sells her again, this time with a blonde wig and Moroccan veil, as a French singer...for the same presentation. The wear and tear on Carmen, changing back-and-forth between numbers, leaves to a heated exchange of words between the performer and her fiancé agent. This leads to the disappearance of Carmen's alter ego, which arouses suspicions by the management...and the police.
Keywords: 1940s, animal-actor, borough-name-in-title, cheap-hotel, cigar-smoking, cigarette-girl, cigarette-smoking, clerk, dancer, dancing
Genres:
Comedy,
Musical,
Quotes:
Carmen Novarro: Why are you always chasing women?::Lionel Q. Deveraux: I'll tell you as soon as I catch one.
Lionel Q. Deveraux: [handing Carmen's mink stole to a hat-check girl] Take good care of this, and at ten o'clock give it a saucer of milk.
Lionel Q. Deveraux: This is an outrage! You'll hear from my lawyer! As soon as he gets a telephone!
Carmen Novarro: [trying to sneak into their hotel] Why don't we get married?::Lionel Q. Deveraux: Let's not rush into marriage; we can't even get into the hotel.
Carmen Novarro: I don't think you want to marry me.::Lionel Q. Deveraux: How can you say that? We've been engaged for almost ten years!
Abe Green - Editor of Variety: Now listen, Deveraux. You and I both know this check is no good.::Lionel Q. Deveraux: Oh? I thought only I knew it.
Lionel Q. Deveraux: Listen, babe.::Specialty: Yes?::Lionel Q. Deveraux: How'd you like to see your name in lights?::Specialty: Why, are you an electrician?::Lionel Q. Deveraux: No, but I've got some good connections.
Steve Hunt: Do I know you?::Lionel Q. Deveraux: Do you know me? Lionel Q. Deveraux, your old room mate at Yale?::Steve Hunt: I never went to Yale.::Lionel Q. Deveraux: Remember those good old days at Erasmus High?::Steve Hunt: I never went to Erasmus High.::Lionel Q. Deveraux: At least you do remember when we graduated from PS 27?::Steve Hunt: No.::Lionel Q. Deveraux: Say, for a man with no education, you've done alright.
Liggett, an Agent: I've got so many clients, they get in my hair!::Lionel Q. Deveraux: This guy must handle a flea circus.
Lionel Q. Deveraux: You ought to go and get cured by Penicilin.::Singer Andy Russell: Well, it is good for my throat.::Lionel Q. Deveraux: So is a razor!
Cowboy Blues (1946)
Actors:
Deuce Spriggins' Band (actor),
Paul Birch (actor),
Al Bridge (actor),
The Town Criers (actor),
Ken Curtis (actor),
Vernon Dent (actor),
Dick Elliott (actor),
The Hoosier Hotshots (actor),
Coulter Irwin (actor),
Guy Kibbee (actor),
Charlie Morgan (actor),
Forbes Murray (actor),
Andy Parker (actor),
The Plainsmen (actor),
George Bamby (actor),
Plot: Believing her father, Dusty Jenkins ('Guy Kibbee' (qv)), to be a rich ranch owner, Susan Nelson ('Jeff Donnell' (qv))), comes to visit him, accompanied by her wealthy fiancée Jerome Winston ('Mark Roberts (I)' (qv)as Robert Scott) and his snooty society mother, Mrs. Winston ('Isabel Randolph' (qv)) billed as her radio character Mrs. Uppington). Dusty, instead of owning the ranch, is actually just one of the hands. The real owner is absent, so foreman Curt Durant ('Ken Curtis (I)' (qv)) and "Big Boy" Stover ('Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams' (qv))) and the other ranch hands ('The Hoosier Hotshots' (qv))) engage in a conspiracy to keep Susan and the Winstons from learning the truth.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, actress-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actress-shares-first-name-with-character, actress-shares-last-name-with-character, b-movie, b-western, broken-engagement
Genres:
Western,
Taglines: A blues-chasin' ACTION MUSICAL! (original print ad) JIVE ON THE RANGE... where the dears and cowpunchers play!
Bob's Busy Day (1942)
Actors:
Godoy's Argentine Band (actor),
William Edmunds (actor),
Jules Epailly (actor),
Bob Hope (actor),
Vicki Cummings (actress),
Frances Halliday (actress),
Leah Ray (actress),
Al Christie (producer),
Arthur L. Jarrett (writer),
William Watson (writer),
Al Christie (director),
Robert M. Savini (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Bob, his girlfriend and her mother are driving through South America. Bob wants to get married at the next town, Los Poach-os Egg-os, where they are currently holding a festival called Dontdoit Day. The road to wedded bliss for Bob and his girl hits a slight bump as his girl catches the eye of a dashing gaucho, and the Mayor, who is the only official in town who can perform the wedding, refuses to do so on Dontdoit Day. In addition, Bob has been the bane of the Mayor's existence since arriving in town, in part since Bob has also cast his eyes on a pretty señorita, who happens to be courted by the Mayor.
Genres:
Comedy,
Short,
Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)
Actors:
Morris Ankrum (actor),
Bob Baker (actor),
Hank Bell (actor),
Brooks Benedict (actor),
Wade Boteler (actor),
Johnny Mack Brown (actor),
The Buckaroo Band (actor),
Iron Eyes Cody (actor),
Dean Collins (actor),
Harry Cording (actor),
Lou Costello (actor),
Maurice Costello (actor),
Harold Daniels (actor),
Boyd Davis (actor),
Bud Abbott (actor),
Plot: Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
Keywords: abbott-and-costello, arizona, bus, car-through-wall, chase, cowboy, cowboy-boots, cowboy-hat, cowboy-shirt, dream-sequence
Genres:
Comedy,
Musical,
Western,
Taglines: GAGS! NAGS! SWEETIES AND SWING! (original print ad - all caps) They'd make a horse LAUGH! (original print ad) TWO TERRIFIED TENDERFEET...CAUGHT IN A ROUND UP OF RIOTOUS REVELRY AND RHYTHM! (original print ad-all caps)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Actors:
Edward Arnold (actor),
Frank Austin (actor),
Irving Bacon (actor),
American Legion Band (actor),
Benny Bartlett (actor),
Max Blum (actor),
Aldrich Bowker (actor),
Sidney Bracey (actor),
Walter Brennan (actor),
Earle D. Bunn (actor),
Glen Cavender (actor),
Howard Chase (actor),
Jack Cheatham (actor),
Hall Johnson Choir (actor),
Stanley Andrews (actor),
Plot: As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement. At last everyone, even Ann, takes her creation seriously...but publisher D.B. Norton has a secret plan.
Keywords: american-politics, baseball, character-name-in-title, christmas, club, convention, diner, father-figure, hoax, hobo
Genres:
Comedy,
Drama,
Romance,
Taglines: ALL AMERICA WANTS TO MEET THE "MR. DEEDS" OF 1941! (original print media ad - all caps)
Quotes:
[Discussing the contract with John Doe]::Henry Connel: On December 26th, you get one railroad ticket... out of town. And the Bulletin agrees to pay to have your arm fixed. That's what you want, isn't it?::Long John Willoughby: Yeah, but, it's gotta be by "Bonesetter" Brown.
The Colonel: I don't read no papers, and I don't listen to radios either. I know the world's been shaved by a drunken barber, and I don't have to read it.
Long John Willoughby: Hey, stop worryin', Colonel, fifty bucks ain't gonna ruin me.::The Colonel: I've seen plenty of fellas start out with fifty bucks and wind up with a *bank* account!::Beany: Hey, what's wrong with a bank account, anyway?::The Colonel: And let me tell you, Long John, when you become a guy with a bank account, they gotcha! Yes sir, they gotcha!::Beany: Who's got him?::The Colonel: The helots!
Mayor Hawkins: O.K. folks, but remember your manners. No stampeding. Walk slow, like you do when you come to pay your taxes.
Angelface: [after Willoughby gives the Colonel the $50 to give away] Say, he's giving it away. I better get me some of that::Beany: Hey, come back here you helot.
D. B. Norton: You'll play your cards right and you'll never have to worry about money again.
D. B. Norton: From now on, I think you'd better work directly with me.
The Colonel: $5,000. Holy mackerel! I can see the helots coming now. A whole army of them.
Ann: Everything in that speech is what a certain man believed in. He was my father. When he talked people listened. They will listen to you too.
Henry Connel: Listen, if that guy lays an egg I want to get *something* out of it! I'm getting a Jane Doe ready.
Going Spanish (1934)
Actors:
Godoy's Argentine Band (actor),
William Edmunds (actor),
Jules Epailly (actor),
Bob Hope (actor),
Vicki Cummings (actress),
Frances Halliday (actress),
Leah Ray (actress),
Al Christie (producer),
Arthur L. Jarrett (writer),
William Watson (writer),
Al Christie (director),
E.W. Hammons (miscellaneous crew),
Jack H. Skirball (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Bob, his fiancée and prospective mother-in-law pass through Los Pochos Eggos, South America during a festival when you can get out of any trouble by singing. But both Bob and the girl find new flames, a problem they may not be able to sing out of.
Keywords: car-accident, film-debut, small-town, song, this-means-war
Genres:
Comedy,
Musical,
Short,
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Actors:
Rafael Alvir (actor),
Sam Appel (actor),
Eddie Arden (actor),
Leo Artigo (actor),
Fred Astaire (actor),
Reginald Barlow (actor),
Don 'Red' Barry (actor),
Leon Beaumon (actor),
Norman Bennett (actor),
Maurice Black (actor),
Eric Blore (actor),
Eddie Boland (actor),
Eddie Borden (actor),
Hal Borne (actor),
Luis Alberni (actor),
Plot: Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests. When he falls for Brazilian beauty Belinha de Rezende it appears to be for real, even though she is already engaged. His Yankee Clippers band is hired to open the new Hotel Atlântico in Rio and Roger offers to fly Belinha part way home. After a mechanical breakdown and forced landing, Roger is confident and makes his move, but Belinha plays hard to get. She can't seem to decide between Roger and her fiance Júlio. When performing the airborne production number to mark the Hotel's opening, Júlio gets some intriguing ideas...
Keywords: airplane, american-in-brazil, astaire-and-rogers, aviation, based-on-play, brazil, dance, dancer, dancing, flying-boat
Genres:
Comedy,
Musical,
Romance,
Taglines: A musical extravaganza staged in the clouds! Romance that soars on the wings of song Romance that soars to the skies on the wings of song! Musical romance staged in the clouds... Too big for the world... So they staged it in the clouds... Too beautiful for words... So they set it to music!
Quotes:
Fred Ayres: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. This is really good news. Rog has outdone himself.::Honey Hale: I'll bet he's broken both legs running after two women at the same time.
Fred Ayres: Nothing of the kind. He's landed us a job in Rio. Rio de Janeiro. The Hotel Atlantico. We'll be flying down any morning now.::Honey Hale: And swimming back in the afternoon. I'm taking my water-wings.
Honey Hale: It's like looking for a noodle in a haystack.
Fred Ayres: The trick is to keep your mind a blank.::Honey Hale: With THAT music?::Honey Hale: Oh, Freddie, is my mind red!
Dancers in the Dark (1932)
Actors:
George Bickel (actor),
Maurice Black (actor),
James Bradbury Jr. (actor),
William Collier Jr. (actor),
Sam Coslow (actor),
Jesse De Vorska (actor),
Eduardo Durant (actor),
Jack Elder (actor),
Paul Fix (actor),
Paul Gibbons (actor),
William Halligan (actor),
Walter Hiers (actor),
Al Hill (actor),
DeWitt Jennings (actor),
Eduardo Durant's Rhumba Band (actor),
Genres:
Drama,
Rutland Herald
27 Feb 2021
Rutland Herald
27 Feb 2021
