Melody Parade
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Cast & Crew
Arthur Dreifuss
Mary Beth Hughes
Eddie Quillan
Tim [ryan]
Irene [ryan]
Mantan Moreland
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Synopsis
Jimmy Tracy is a busboy at the Hollywood Melody Club, but poses as an agent and talent scout when he meets the new hat check girl, Anne O'Rourke. Although Jimmy tells her that he can arrange a singing audition for her with the club's operator, Happy Harrington, Happy is beset by creditors, as the club's owner, Jonathan Brewster, an eccentric inventor, has just died. Happy is informed that Gloria Brewster, the sole heir, is on her way to Hollywood to settle the club's affairs. Jimmy meets the scatterbrained Gloria first and arranges for Anne to audition with another of his protégés, pianist Skidmore, the club's janitor. After Happy tells Anne that Jimmy is not an agent, he finally meets Gloria and invites her, and the creditors, to dinner at the club. When Gloria reveals that her aunt, Gloria Brewster III, is the real heiress, the creditors circle once again. Unknown to Happy, Jimmy had persuaded Gloria to send a telegram to New York impresario Count Du Val, offering him a large sum of money to come to Los Angeles to produce a new show for the club. Just as Happy is about to announce the club's closure, the count arrives. Before he discovers the truth, however, Gloria receives a telegram stating that a syndicate wants to buy one of her uncle's inventions and is offering two million dollars, and the club stays open. Du Val decides to retain most of the current company including singer/dancer Armida, but will make more lavish costumes and also bring in singer Jerry Cooper. After Jimmy, who has promised Anne and Skidmore parts in the revue, persuades Du Val to hear Anne sing, she is offered a contract. However, Happy has to tell Du Val that Armida's manager put a clause in her contract stipulating that she is to be the only female singer in the show, and Du Val is forced to reject Anne. When Jimmy hears this, he quits the club. Later, Anne finds him working as a busboy at another club and persuades him to return to the Melody Club, whose revue is opening the next evening. Still scheming, Jimmy convinces Skidmore to slip a sleeping pill into one of the drinks for the Morgan Trio, so he will be able to replace one of them on stage. However, the stage manager switches the trio's dressing room with Armida's, and she takes the drink and passes out. Gloria is pressed into service and performs a song as a stalling measure, then Anne gets her chance, substituting for Armida. Happy is so pleased with the way things are going that he proposes to Gloria. Skidmore, meanwhile, tries to drug the trio again, but becomes confused about which glass contains the "mickey" and drinks it himself. Happy then overhears Jimmy telling Anne about how Armida became incapacitated, and fires him again. When Anne threatens to leave, however, he rehires him. Later, after Gloria receives another telegram stating that the syndicate has withdrawn its offer as her uncle's invention has proven worthless, Happy passes out. Jimmy and Anne, however, intend to marry.
Director
Arthur Dreifuss
Cast
Mary Beth Hughes
Eddie Quillan
Tim [ryan]
Irene [ryan]
Mantan Moreland
Jerry Cooper
Armida
Andre Charlot
Loumell Morgan Trio
Ruloff, Follette & Lunard
Anson Weeks And His Orchestra
Ted Fio Rito And His Orchestra
Candy Candido
Kenneth Harlan
Ruby Dandridge
Cy Ring
Ramon Ros
Crew
Jack Boyle
Eddie Cherkose
Richard Currier
Eddie Davis
Glen Glenn
Edward Kay
Edward Kay
Charles R. Marion
Dave Milton
Clarence Muse
Lindsley Parsons
Maceo Pinkard
Leon René
Otis René
Tim Ryan
Mack Stengler
William Strohbach
Doris Tauber
William Tracey
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Notes
The song "Serenade to a Jitterbug" by Eddie Cherkose and Edward Kay is listed in copyright records, but was not heard in the film.
