Hat Check Honey
Cast & Crew
Edward F. Cline
Grace Mcdonald
Richard Davis
Leon Errol
Walter Catlett
Ramsay Ames
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Vaudeville comedian Happy Dan Briggs breaks up his father and son carnival act so that his son Danny, Jr. can have a chance at the big time. Working as a busboy at the Penguin nightclub, Danny meets and falls in love with aspiring writer Susan Brent, who works there as a hat check girl. After being fired as a busboy, Danny is hired to replace Jimmy Cash as the singer in Freddie Slack's orchestra. Encouraged by Danny's newfound success, Susan asks Happy to come to the Penguin in order to patch things up between the father and son. That night, motion picture star Mona Mallory attends the club, but leaves abruptly when the well-meaning Happy spills champagne on her. Happy apologizes to the actress the next morning, however, so she agrees to help Danny get a contract with Major Studios. After his very first film with Mona, the studio heads decide to build up Danny to star status. Happy, in turn, pays Susan's way to Hollywood, where she is immediately hired as a bicycle messenger at the studio. Danny soon becomes a victim of his own success, going so far as to present himself as an aristocrat. Mona, in turn, becomes jealous of Danny's publicity and demands that her new discovery, Alan Dane, co-star in her next film. When her demands are refused, Mona telegrams Happy and asks him to come out to Hollywood. Later, Susan chastises Danny who, on the advice of his agent, Tim Martel, refuses to meet his father at the train station. Danny takes Happy and Susan to a nightclub, where they meet Mona and Alan, with disastrous results. Later, Martel tells Happy that his presence in Hollywood will hurt Danny's career, so the old vaudevillian agrees to leave. Meanwhile, Danny asks for a delay in the production of his next picture so that he can straighten things out with Susan and his father, but when the studio refuses, he quits and returns to his old job with Freddie Slack's orchestra. Later, Susan writes a screenplay, based on Happy's vaudevillian life, but refuses to sell it to the studio unless Happy plays himself. Happy, in turn, refuses to do the film without his son. The studio then agrees to give Danny another chance, and he and Susan are reconciled.
Director
Edward F. Cline
Cast
Grace Mcdonald
Richard Davis
Leon Errol
Walter Catlett
Ramsay Ames
Milburn Stone
Lee Bennett
Russell Hicks
Chester Clute
Mary Gordon
Emmett Vogan
Jack Rice
Freddie Slack
Harry Owens
Ted Weems
Jimmy Cash
Minna Phillips
Eddie Acuff
Eddie Bruce
Ruby Dandridge
Ray Walker
Eddie Dunn
Claire Whitney
Jack Chefe
Neely Edwards
Donald Kerr
Billy Young
Ronnie Rondell
Alphonse Martel
Marie Harmon
Charles Sherlock
Polly Bailey
Crew
Bernard B. Brown
Phil Brown
Everett Carter
Will Cowan
Stanley Davis
Ray Eberle
John P. Fulton
R. A. Gausman
Joseph Gershenson
A. J. Gilmore
Saul A. Goodkind
John B. Goodman
William Hedgcock
Milton Krasner
Maurice Leo
Al Martin
Richard H. Riedel
Milton Rosen
William Tummell
Vera West
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
The working title of this film was Cross Your Fingers. According to the Hollywood Reporter review, this was actor Richard Davis' first film after his discharge from the U.S. Army for medical reasons. Although modern sources include the songs "Rhythm of the Islands" and "It Happened in Kaloha" in the film, they were not heard in the viewed print.
