The Singing Marine

The Singing Marine

Directed by	Ray Enright Busby Berkeley (musical sequences)
Written by	Delmer Daves (original screenplay)
Cinematography	Arthur L. Todd Sidney Hickox (uncredited)
Edited by	Thomas Pratt
Distributed by	Warner Brothers
Release dates	July 3, 1937 (1937-07-03)
Running time	105 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

The Singing Marine is a 1937 American film starring Dick Powell, the last of his trio of service-related Warners films: 1934's Flirtation Walk paid tribute, of sorts, to the Army, and 1935's Shipmates Forever to the Navy. This one is distinguished by its two musical sequences directed by Busby Berkeley.

Cast

Dick Powell as Private Robert Brent
Doris Weston as Peggy Randall
Lee Dixon as Corporal Slim Baxter
Hugh Herbert as Aeneas Phinney / Clarissa
Jane Darwell as "Ma" Marine
Allen Jenkins as Sergeant Mike Kelly
Larry Adler as himself
Marcia Ralston as Helen Young
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Dopey
Veda Ann Borg as Diane
Jane Wyman as Joan
Berton Churchill as J. Montgomery Madison
Eddie Acuff as Sam
Henry O'Neill as Captain Skinner
Addison Richards as Felix Fowler
unbilled players include Ward Bond, Richard Loo, and Doc Rockwell as himself

External links

The Singing Marine at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Ray Enright

Tracked by the Police (1927)
Jaws of Steel (1927)
The Girl from Chicago (1927)
Land of the Silver Fox (1928)
Skin Deep (1929)
Song of the West (1930)
Golden Dawn (1930)
Dancing Sweeties (1930)
Scarlet Pages (1930)
Play Girl (1932)
The Tenderfoot (1932)
Blondie Johnson (1933)
Tomorrow at Seven (1933)
The Silk Express (1933)
Havana Widows (1933)
I've Got Your Number (1934)
Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)
The Circus Clown (1934)
Dames (1934)
The St. Louis Kid (1934)
While the Patient Slept (1935)
Traveling Saleslady (1935)
Alibi Ike (1935)
We're in the Money (1935)
Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)
Snowed Under (1935)
Earthworm Tractors (1936)
China Clipper (1936)
Sing Me a Love Song (1937)
Ready, Willing, and Able (1937)
Slim (1937)
The Singing Marine (1937)
Back in Circulation (1937)
Swing Your Lady (1938)
Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
Hard to Get (1938)
Going Places (1938)
The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
On Your Toes (1939)
Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
Teddy, the Rough Rider (1940)
An Angel from Texas (1940)
The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
Thieves Fall Out (1941)
Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
Law of the Tropics (1941)
Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
The Spoilers (1942)
Men of Texas (1942)
Sin Town (1942)
Gung Ho! (1943)
China Sky (1945)
Man Alive (1945)
Trail Street (1947)
Albuquerque (1948)
Coroner Creek (1948)
Return of the Bad Men (1948)
South of St. Louis (1949)
Montana (1950)
Kansas Raiders (1950)
Flaming Feather (1952)
The Man from Cairo (1953)

Busby Berkeley: Choreographer and director

Broadway pre-Hollywood	Holka Polka (chor, 1925) The Wild Rose (chor, 1926) Lady Do (chor, 1927) A Connecticut Yankee (chor, 1927) White Eagle (chor, 1927) Present Arms (chor, 1928) Earl Carroll's Vanities (1928) (chor, 1928) Good Boy (chor, 1928) Rainbow (chor, 1928) Hello, Daddy (chor, 1928) Pleasure Bound (chor, 1929) A Night in Venice (chor, 1929) Broadway Nights (chor, 1929) The Street Singer (dir & prod, 1929) Nine-Fifteen Revue (chor, 1930) The International Review (chor, 1930) Sweet and Low (chor, 1930)

1930s	Whoopee! (chor, 1930) Kiki (chor, 1931) Palmy Days (chor, 1931) Flying High (chor, 1931) Sky Devils (chor, 1932) Girl Crazy (chor, 1932) Night World (chor, 1932) Bird of Paradise (chor, 1932) The Kid From Spain (chor, 1932) 42nd Street (chor, 1933) Gold Diggers of 1933 (chor, 1933) She Had to Say Yes (dir, 1933) Footlight Parade (chor, 1933) Roman Scandals (chor, 1933) Dames (dir mus nmbrs, 1934) Fashions of 1934 (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1934) Wonder Bar (chor, 1934) Gold Diggers of 1935 (dir & chor, 1935) Bright Lights (dir, 1935) I Live for Love (dir & chor, 1935) In Caliente (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1935) Stars Over Broadway (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1935) Stage Struck (dir, 1936) Varsity Show (dir finale, 1937) The Singing Marine (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1937) Gold Diggers of 1937 (dir mus nmbrs, 1937) The Go Getter (dir, 1937) Hollywood Hotel (dir & chor, 1937) Men Are Such Fools (dir, 1938) Gold Diggers in Paris (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1938) Garden of the Moon (dir, 1938) Comet Over Broadway (dir, 1938) Broadway Serenade (dir finale, 1939) They Made Me a Criminal (dir, 1939) Fast and Furious (dir, 1939) Babes in Arms (dir, 1939) The Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow's dance-cut, 1939)

1940s	Forty Little Mothers (dir, 1940) Strike Up The Band (dir, 1940) Blonde Inspiration (dir, 1941) Lady Be Good (dir mus nmbrs, 1941) Ziegfeld Girl (dir mus nmbrs, 1941) Babes on Broadway (dir, 1941) For Me and My Gal (dir, 1942) Calling All Girls (chor & dir mus nmbrs, 1942) Born to Sing (dir finale, 1942) Cabin in the Sky (dir "Shine" seq, 1943) The Gang's All Here (dir & chor, 1943) Three Cheers for the Girls (chor, 1943) Girl Crazy (dir "I Got Rhythm", 1943) All Star Musical Revue (dir mus nmbrs, 1945) Cinderella Jones (dir, 1946) Romance on the High Seas (chor, 1948) Take Me Out to the Ball Game (dir, 1949)

1950s	Annie Get Your Gun (dir-cut, 1950) Big Town (dir TV series, 1950) Weeks With Love (chor, 1950) Call Me Mister (chor, 1950) Ticket to Broadway (chor, 1951) Million Dollar Mermaid (chor, 1952) Small Town Girl (chor, 1953) Easy to Love (chor, 1953) Rose Marie (chor, 1954)

1960s	Billy Rose's Jumbo (chor & dir 2nd unit, 1962)

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