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Plot

Obviously filmed on a tight budget, RKO Radio's Hooray for Love nevertheless has as much sheer entertainment value as any high-priced Busby Berkeley spectacular. Gene Raymond plays Doug, a college boy who aspires to become a Broadway producer. With reluctant songstress Pat (Ann Sothern) as his star, Doug stages a big-time revue, financed by Pat's father, a seedy con artist known as the Commodore (Thurston Hall). When it turns out that The Commoder hasn't a cent to his name, Doug is tossed into jail, but salvation is at hand in the form of a wealthy widow (Georgia Caine) who's set her cap for Pat's reprobate father. Lionel Stander has several choice moments as a temperamental Russian orchestra leader, as does Pert Kelton as a talentless soubrette, but the film's strongest selling card is the presence of the matchless Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Fats Waller. The musical highlight is Robinson's "I'm Living in a Great Big Way," accompanied by Waller and Jeni Le Gon.
MPAA Rating:
Not Yet Rated
Genre(s):
Family,Musicals
Run Time:
75min.
Theatrical Release Date:
03/05/2007
Distributor(s):
Radio Pictures
Director(s):
Walter Lang
Starring:
Ann Sothern , Gene Raymond , Thurston Hall , Pert Kelton
Keywords:
bail,bankruptcy,boyfriend,father,finances,financier,girlfriend,loot,love,marriage-of-convenience,musical [play],persuasion,producer [showbiz],romance,show,songwriter,woman