Make Believe Ballroom (1949) DVD-R

Starring Jerome Courtland, Ruth Warrick, Ron Randell, Virginia Welles, Frankie Laine, Nat
King Cole
Directed by Joseph Santley

Print: black/white
Runtime: 79 min.
Genre: musical
Print Quality: B

Liza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery
Contest, with a $5000 prize to the person who can first name the most musical numbers
and their performers. Drive-in carhops Gene Thomas ) and Josie Marlow run neck-and-neck
in the contest, They are friendly rivals until college professor Leslie Todd begins courting
Josie. Gene is thrown out of the contest on the grounds he tried to bribe sound engineer
Jerskin Elliott into telling him the name and performer of the final, deciding mystery tune.
Believing that Gene is innocent, Josie tricks a confession out of Elliott and clears Gene for
the grand finale.