No, No Nanette
Cast & Crew
Herbert Wilcox
Anna Neagle
Richard Carlson
Victor Mature
Roland Young
Helen Broderick
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
"Happy" Jimmy Smith of the fashionable North Shore is experiencing financial difficulties due to his tight fisted wife Susan and his philandering ways. Jimmy's latest problem is Sonya from Syracuse, who is demanding the money he promised her for her acting career. When Jimmy's old friend, theatrical producer William Trainor, announces that he is casting a new show, Jimmy's niece Nanette finagles a way to rid her uncle of Sonya. Nanette cajoles Bill into putting the would-be actress in his show, and in the process, Bill falls in love with Nanette. Next, under threat of Betty from Bridgeport, the family flees to New York, where Jimmy encounters Kitty from Kansas, to whom he has promised an artistic career. Once again pressed into the service of her uncle, Nanette calls upon artist Tom Gillespie and convinces him to teach Kitty the art trade and Tom, like Bill, also falls in love with Nanette. Jimmy is relieved until Betty from Bridgeport appears and demands five thousand dollars. To raise the money, Nanette sells the portrait that Tom has painted of her to a cigarette company, an act which angers and disappoints Tom, who had planned to exhibit his masterpiece in art galleries and thus break out of the commercial art market. On the rebound, Nanette goes out with Bill, who convinces her to meet him at the airport that night so they can elope to Nevada. Meanwhile, Susan, who has discovered her husband's extracurricular activities, also boards the plane bound for Nevada and a divorce, and Jimmy, headed for the Virgin Islands, books passage on the same flight. All ends happily when, as the plane is airbound, Jimmy and Susan tearfully reconcile and Nanette discovers that Bill has brought Tom aboard to marry her.
Director
Herbert Wilcox
Cast
Anna Neagle
Richard Carlson
Victor Mature
Roland Young
Helen Broderick
Zasu Pitts
Eve Arden
Tamara
Billy Gilbert
Stuart Robertson
Aubrey Mather
Mary Gordon
Russell Hicks
Dorothea Kent
Crew
Mcclelland Barclay
Aida Broadbent
Irving Caesar
Anthony Collins
Ken Englund
Otto Harbach
Kenneth Holmes
Russell Metty
Lloyd Richards
Darrell Silvera
Edward Stevenson
Richard Van Hessen
Vernon Walker
Merrill G. White
Herbert Wilcox
Herbert Wilcox
Elmo Williams
J. P. Williams
Vincent Youmans
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
"No, No, Nanette" was originally a broadway show produced and directed by Harry Frazee in 1925, running for 321 shows. To finance the show, Mr. Frazee - then owner of the Boston Red Sox - sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in December of 1919.
Notes
The stage musical ran in Chicago a year before opening in New York. According to an article in Los Angeles Examiner, M-G-M considered buying the rights to the show for Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. A news item in Hollywood Reporter adds that Kent Taylor was originally set for the lead opposite Anna Neagle. In 1930, First National produced a film based on the show directed by Clarence Badger and starring Bernice Claire and Alexander Grey. In 1970, Ruby Keeler starred in a Broadway revival of the musical.
