Something to Shout About (film)
1943 film by Gregory Ratoff
- February 25, 1943 (1943-02-25)
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Something to Shout About is a 1943 Columbia Pictures musical film directed by Gregory Ratoff. The film stars Don Ameche and Janet Blair, and was nominated for two Academy Awards.[1]
The film's sets were designed by the art director Nicolai Remisoff.
Plot
The film takes place behind the scenes of a fictional vaudeville play. The story centers on a recently divorced woman. She decides to use her alimony settlement to produce her own show. Unfortunately her chief backer insists on starring in it. She is saved by a talented man, who puts everything on risk to replace the talentless chief backer.
Cast
- Don Ameche – Ken Douglas
- Janet Blair – Jeanie Maxwell
- Jack Oakie – Larry Martin
- William Gaxton – Willard Samson
- Cobina Wright, Jr. – Donna Davis
- Veda Ann Borg – Flo Bentley
- Cyd Charisse (billed as Lily Norwood) – Lily
Soundtrack
- You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
- Written by Cole Porter
- Sung by Janet Blair and Don Ameche
- I Always Knew
- Written by Cole Porter
- Hasta Luego
- Written by Cole Porter
References
- ^ "The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 5, 2019.
External links
- Something to Shout About at IMDb
- Something to Shout About at AllMovie
- Something to Shout About at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- Something to Shout About at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
- Something to Shout About at Box Office Mojo
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Films directed by Gregory Ratoff
- Sins of Man (1936)
- Lancer Spy (1937)
- Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
- Rose of Washington Square (1939)
- Hotel for Women (1939)
- Intermezzo (1939)
- Day-Time Wife (1939)
- Barricade (1939)
- I Was an Adventuress (1940)
- Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
- Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
- The Corsican Brothers (1941)
- The Men in Her Life (1941)
- Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)
- Footlight Serenade (1942)
- Something to Shout About (1943)
- The Heat's On (1943)
- Song of Russia (1944)
- Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
- Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
- Paris Underground (1945)
- Do You Love Me (1946)
- Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)
- Moss Rose (1947)
- That Dangerous Age (1949)
- Black Magic (1949)
- My Daughter Joy (1950)
- Taxi (1953)
- Abdulla the Great (1955)
- Oscar Wilde (1960)
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