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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]).

Date: 08/21/1936

Rating: 5.7

Cast: Alice Faye, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff, Patsy Kelly, Ted Healy, Michael Whalen, Al Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz, Montagu Love, Dixie Dunbar, Douglas Fowley, Paul Stanton, Tony Martin, Monica Bannister, Bonnie Bannon, Lynn Bari, John Bleifer, Stanley Blystone, George Chandler, Diane Cook, Pauline Craig, Lester Dorr, Virginia Field, Bess Flowers, June Gale, Arthur Hoyt, Selmer Jackson, DeWitt Jennings, Jerry Larkin, Sam McDaniel, Paul McVey, Lucille Miller, Carroll Nye, William H. O'Brien, Lillian Porter, Cully Richards, Tom Ricketts, Donna Mae Roberts, Don Rowan, Ernie Stanton, Charles Tannen, Julius Tannen, Dale Van Sickel, Poppy Wilde, June Wilkins, Eric Wilton, Helen Wood, Wanda Perry

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