Coronado
Cast & Crew
Norman Mcleod
Johnny Downs
Betty Burgess
Jack Haley
Andy Devine
Leon Errol
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Wealthy Walter and Gloria Marvin and their troublesome son Johnny come to stay at the Hotel Coronado in southern California. To keep Johnny out of mischief, the manager asks house bandleader Eddie to give Johnny a part in the band, and asks singer June Wray to perform a song that Johnny wrote. June lives with her poor father Otto, who intensely dislikes her sister Violet's new sailor husband, Chuck Hornbostel, because he was too poor to buy her a ring. Believing Johnny to be poor and starving, June befriends him, buys him a meal, and takes him dancing with Chuck and Vi. Johnny inadvertently wins a talent contest but uses the prize to buy a bracelet for Vi in Chuck's name. After June pleads with the manager Carlton to give Johnny a job in the band, she discovers he is actually from a wealthy family and thinks she has been deceived. Walter visits with Otto and they agree to try to keep their unsuitably paired children apart by exaggerating their differences. That night at the hotel, June and Johnny perform. As part of the plan, Otto becomes drunk and interrupts the show with old vaudeville songs. June is hurt when Johnny laughs at Otto, and runs away saying she acted nice to him only because Carlton ordered her to do so. Later that night, Otto confesses to June his and Walter's plan. Meanwhile, Chuck and his friend Pinky Falls sneak across the Mexican border to buy a cheap wedding ring for Vi, but they get thrown in jail. Johnny impersonates a doctor and gets Chuck released, then rushes to the hotel just in time for his performance in the big music and dance review. Otto is satisfied by the wedding ring, and Johnny and June are reunited.
Director
Norman Mcleod
Cast
Johnny Downs
Betty Burgess
Jack Haley
Andy Devine
Leon Errol
Alice White
Eddy Duchin
And His Orchestra
Jameson Thomas
Berton Churchill
Nella Walker
Jacqueline Wells
James Burke
James B. Carson
Leonard Sues
Frances Raymond
Edward Earle
Robert E. O'connor
Joe Barton
Duke York
Dewey Robinson
Guy Rennie
Chris Pin Martin
Harry Vejar
Harry Semels
Ben Taggart
Oliver Eckhardt
Leila Mcintyre
William "billy" Gilbert
Rolfe Sedan
Allan Rogers
Clarence Badger Jr.
Sidney Jarvis
Billy Bletcher
George Burton
Art Miles
Harry Depp
Augusta Anderson
Henry Roquemore
Esther Muir
Norma Taylor
Leota Lorraine
Jeanne Beeks
Suzanne Langton
Melville Ruick
James Quinn
James P. Burtis
Paul Porcasi
Spencer Williams Jr.
Crew
Hugh Bennett
David Boehm
Frank Butler
John Cope
Sam Coslow
Hans Dreier
A. E. Freudeman
Don Hartman
Don Hartman
Henry Herzbrun
Brian Hooker
William Lebaron
Robert Odell
Seena Owen
Leroy Prinz
Gilbert Warrenton
Richard A. Whiting
Phil G. Wisdom
Adolph Zukor
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Notes
A pre-release article in Motion Picture Herald attributes the original screenplay to David Boehm. His contribution to the final film has not been determined. Some scenes were filmed on location at the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, CA.
