Word: rubinoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from which are hung the story's numerous coats and vests. Round him revolve the successful musicomedy author, Don Ameche, the would-be writer of tragedy, Alice Faye, the nigger in the woodpile, Gypsy Rose Lee, alias Louise Hovick, stooges just stooges, the Ritz Brothers, and incidentally Rubinoff and his violin...
...Comedian Gregory Ratoff, concerns the ambition of fluffy Judith Poe Wells (Alice Faye) to write a searching play, one thing never achieved by her illustrious great grandfather Edgar Allan Poe.* When penniless Miss Wells consumes three orders of spaghetti in a Broadway restaurant, the proprietor and his violinist (Rubinoff) let her sing for her supper. That is enough to convince Diner George Macrae (Don Ameche), a successful musical comedy librettist, that Judith is wasting her time as a playwright. Although this impression is confirmed when Macrae and Producer Sam Gordon (Charles Winninger) read her dismal drama, North Winds, in which...
...Dvorak, Patsy Kelley, and Fred Allen all contribute their bits with considerable success and both Paul Whiteman and Rubinoff do bits in the gubernatorial contest about which the story is centered. Powell is drafted by the party bosses to take the place of their drunken candidate who is played in the true manner of the nickleodeon by Raymond Walburn. Powell sings his way into the hearts of the voters and then gains their confidence by exposing his own backers as a bunch of crooks. It seemed to make no difference to him that he had promised to keep the arrangement...