The Singing Marine (1937)

Directors

Busby Berkeley, Ray Enright

Cast

Addison Richards, Allen Jenkins, Berton Churchill, Dick Powell, Eddie Acuff, George Lovejoy Rockwell, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Henry O'Neill, Hugh Herbert, Jane Darwell, Jane Wyman, Larry Adler, Lee Dixon, Marcia Ralston, Richard Loo, Veda Ann Borg, Ward Bond

The story

Robert Brent, a shy rookie private in the Marine Corps from Arkansas, is discovered to have a wonderful singing voice and wins a talent contest in New York City (based on Major Bowes Amateur Hour). The prospect of radio stardom causes him to develop a swollen head; he finds a manager, Aeneas Phinney, starts touring as "the Singing Marine", and hesitates to sail to Shanghai with his unit. Eventually he follows his duty.

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