Sing, Dance, Plenty Hot
Cast & Crew
Lew Landers
Ruth Terry
Johnny Downs
Barbara Jo Allen
Billy Gilbert
Claire Carleton
Film Details
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Synopsis
Scott Durham, a suave promoter, has made a racket out of producing charity benefits with his wife Evelyn, and then deducting so much money from the gross that very little is left for the charitable organization sponsoring the shows. Johnny Cassidy, Durham's assistant and a song and dance man, works unaware of his employer's unscrupulous methods. When Durham leases new offices in the Marlowe Building, Agatha Marlowe, the straight-laced head of the blue-blooded family that owns the building, threatens to throw the scandalous theater people out. However, those theater people become a blessing to the Marlowe family when the Marlowe Orphanage faces financial reversals and the family decides to hire Durham to stage a benefit show. Agatha relents and allows the troupe to rehearse in the mansion, where her sister Susan becomes smitten by Hector Bates, a middle-aged gentleman who has paid Durham a thousand dollars for theatrical training. Unknown to Durham, Bates is an undercover agent investigating the producer. Love abounds as Agatha's niece Irene falls in love with Johnny and decides to become a professional singer. As the charity show readies for its performance, Hector accumulates enough evidence to indict Durham for fraud. Learning of this, Durham and Evelyn flee town with the proceeds from the benefit. Discovering their whereabouts, Hector and Johnny devise a clever trap. Hector, masquerading as the Hindu Princess whom Durham is about to fleece, lures the producer across the New York state line where he is indicted on charges of graft. With the charity funds recovered, the show goes on.
Director
Lew Landers
Cast
Ruth Terry
Johnny Downs
Barbara Jo Allen
Billy Gilbert
Claire Carleton
Mary Lee
Elisabeth Risdon
Lester Matthews
Leonard Carey
Crew
George Blair
George R. Brown
Vera Caspary
Larry Ceballos
Stanley Davis
Cy Feuer
Carl Herzinger
John Victor Mackay
Edward Mann
Sol Meyer
Ernest Miller
Robert North
Adele Palmer
Gordon Rigby
Bradford Ropes
Bradford Ropes
Murray Seldeen
Jule Styne
Al Wilson
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Notes
Sing Dance Plenty Hot was the title of a magazine story by Duane Decker, which appeared in Collier's magazine in 1940. After paying five hundred dollars for the story, Republic retained the title and discarded the story.
