Sing, Baby, Sing
(Sing, Baby, Sing)
6/ 10Original Title : Sing, Baby, Sing
Time : 90 Min
Genre : Music
Project Type : Movie
Year of release : 1936
Director : Sidney Lanfield
Writer : Harry Tugend, Jack Yellen, Milton Sperling
Producer : Darryl F. Zanuck
Project State : completed
Origin Country/Region : United States
Original Language : English
About : The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).