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MediocreGoodWatch scoreSummary
The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen.
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Audiences 53GoodWatch 52
IMDb5.3
Running time
1 h 6 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 music movies, −40 min on the typical 106
typical 10666Half of all music movies run 94–120 min.
Reach
Streams in 61 countries
+51Released
1936
December 5, 1936
90 years ago
Genres
MusicComedyLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
and 8 moreDirecting · 1
- Boris Petroff Director
Writing · 2
- Samuel Fuller Screenplay, Story
- Edmund Joseph Screenplay, Story
Other crew · 1
- Thiele Lawrence Additional Dialogue
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