Summary
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But Sid frets as Adeline spends increasing amounts of time with the dashing Major Day.
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Audiences 47GoodWatch 54
IMDb5.5
Audience score38%
Running time
1 h 27 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 romances, −20 min on the typical 107
typical 10787Half of all romances run 97–122 min.
Released
1934
December 29, 1934
92 years ago
Genres
RomanceMusicLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
United States
and 7 moreDirecting · 2
- Mervyn LeRoy Director
- Gordon Hollingshead Assistant Director
Writing · 3
- Jerome Kern Writer
- Oscar Hammerstein II Writer
- Erwin S. Gelsey Screenplay
Production · 1
- Maxwell Arnow Casting Director
Camera · 1
- Sol Polito Director of Photography
Editing · 2
- Ralph Dawson Editor
- Harold McLernon Editor
Sound · 2
- Heinz Roemheld Original Music Composer
- Charles David Forrest Sound
Art · 1
- Robert M. Haas Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up · 2
- Orry-Kelly Costume Design
- Emily Moore Hairstylist
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