Something to Shout About (film)

Something to Shout About
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Directed by	Gregory Ratoff
Produced by	Gregory Ratoff
Starring	Don Ameche Janet Blair
Music by	Gil Grau
Cinematography	Franz Planer
Edited by	Otto Meyer
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	February 25, 1943 (1943-02-25)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Something to Shout About is a 1943 Columbia Pictures musical film directed by Gregory Ratoff. The film stars Don Ameche and Janet Blair and was nominated for two Oscars.

Plot

The movie takes place behind the scenes of a fictional vaudeville play. The story centers on a recently divorced woman. She decides to use her alimony settlement to produce her own show. Unfortunately her chief backer insists on starring in it. She is saved by a talented man, who puts everything on risk to replace the talentless chief backer.

Cast

Don Ameche – Ken Douglas
Janet Blair – Jeanie Maxwell
Jack Oakie – Larry Martin
William Gaxton – Willard Samson
Cobina Wright, Jr. – Donna Davis
Veda Ann Borg – Flo Bentley
Cyd Charisse (billed as Lily Norwood) – Lily

Soundtrack

You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
- Written by Cole Porter
- Sung by Janet Blair and Don Ameche
I Always Knew
- Written by Cole Porter
Hasta Luego
- Written by Cole Porter

External links

Films directed by Gregory Ratoff

Sins of Man (1936)
Lancer Spy (1937)
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Hotel for Women (1939)
Intermezzo (1939)
Day-Time Wife (1939)
Barricade (1939)
I Was an Adventuress (1940)
Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
The Corsican Brothers (1941)
The Men in Her Life (1941)
Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)
Footlight Serenade (1942)
Something to Shout About (1943)
The Heat's On (1943)
Song of Russia (1944)
Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
Paris Underground (1945)
Do You Love Me (1946)
Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)
Moss Rose (1947)
That Dangerous Age (1949)
Black Magic (1949)
My Daughter Joy (1950)
Taxi (1953)
Abdulla the Great (1955)
Oscar Wilde (1960)

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