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One Hundred Men and a Girl

 
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One Hundred Men and a Girl

  • Director: Henry Koster
  • AMG Rating: starstarstar
  • Genre: Musical
  • Movie Type: Backstage Musical, Musical Comedy
  • Themes: Ladder to the Top
  • Main Cast: Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Leopold Stokowski, Mischa Auer, Eugene Pallette, Alice Brady
  • Release Year: 1937
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 84 minutes

Plot

The girl is teenaged singing sensation Deanna Durbin; the one hundred men are out-of-work musicians. Still in her "little miss fix-it" stage, Durbin connives to help the musicians crack the big time. The person Durbin is most concerned with is her father (Adolphe Menjou) the 100th and most underemployed of the bunch. The men organize their own orchestra; all they need is a prestigious leader. Enter legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, who after several refusals to listen to Durbin's entreaties is captivated when he hears the sounds of Liszt's 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody, as played by 100 shabby instrumentalists camped out on the stairway of his house. This film literally saved Universal Studios from receivership in 1937, assuring Ms. Durbin a movie career until she was too rich to care. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Frank Jenks - Taxi Driver; Edwin Maxwell - Ira Westing, Music Editor; John Hamilton - Manager; Jack Smart - Stage Doorman; Hooper Atchley - Guest; Tommy Bitters - Jed Prouty; James Bush - Music Lover; Charles Coleman - Guest; Bess Flowers - Party Guest; Mary Forbes - Theater Patron; Billy Gilbert - Garage Owner; Howard Hickman - Johnson; Leonid Kinskey - Pianist; Alma Kruger - Mrs. Tyler; Rosemary La Planche - Girl; Jack Mulhall - Rudolph, a Bearded Musician; Jed Prouty - Tommy Bitters; Christian Rub - Gustave Bandstetter; Rolfe Sedan - Guest; Gerald Oliver Smith - Stevens, butler; Jameson Thomas - Russell; Eric Wilton - Butler

Credit

Vera West - Costume Designer, Frank Shaw - First Assistant Director, Henry Koster - Director, Bernard W. Burton - Editor, Charles R. Rogers - Executive Producer, Charles Previn - Musical Direction/Supervision, John W. Harkrider - Production Designer, Joseph A. Valentine - Cinematographer, Joe Pasternak - Producer, Jack Martin Smith - Set Designer, Bernard B. Brown - Sound/Sound Designer, Joe Lapis - Sound/Sound Designer, Homer Tasker - Sound/Sound Designer, Hanns Kraly - Screen Story, Charles Kenyon - Screenwriter, Bruce Manning - Screenwriter, James Mulhauser - Screenwriter
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