Main Cast: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Warren William, Frank McHugh, Jeanne Madden
Release Year: 1936
Country: US
Run Time: 86 minutes
Plot
Stage Struck is one of the least known of Busby Berkeley's Warner Bros. musicals, chiefly because there are no major production numbers. The plot is that old saw about young, unknown hopefuls who put on a Big Show and become overnight stars. Alas, the magic didn't work for leading lady Jeanne Madden, who disappeared from films shortly after this brief bid for fame. The film's highlight is a satirical number by the Yacht Club Boys, a "nut" singing group best described as the Gentile Ritz Brothers. The songs for Stage Struck were written by E. Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen, whose talents would be displayed to better advantage in 1939's Wizard of Oz. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Carolyn Hughes - Grace Randall; Craig Reynolds - Gilmore Frost; Hobart Cavanaugh - Wayne; Johnny Arthur - Oscar Freud; Spring Byington - Mrs. Randall; Thomas Pogue - Dr. Stanley; Andrew Tombes - Burns Haywood; Val Stanton - Cooper; Ernie Stanton - Marley and Cooper; Edward Gargan - Riordan; Eddy Chandler - Heney; Libby Taylor - Yvonne; Mary Gordon - Mrs. Cassidy; Yacht Club Boys - Yacht Club Boys; Iris Adrian - Miss DeRue; John Alexander - Red Cap; Herbert Ashley - Bartender; Glen Cavender; Sarah Edwards - Spinster Schoolteacher at Aquarium; Charles Croker King - Alexander the Critic; Rosalind Marquis - Miss LaHenc; Mary Treen - Clerk; Kathrin Clare Ward - Landlady; Leo White - Waiter; Jane Wyman - Bessie Funfnick; Henry Martin - Chauffeur; Ted Offenbecker - Wilbur; Irene Colman - Brunette; George Riley - Drunk; Baldy Belmont - Doorman; Walter Clyde - Stagehand
