The Music Goes Round (1936) DVD-R

Starring Harry Richman, Rochelle Hudson, Walter Connolly, Douglass
Dumbrille, Lionel Stander
Directed by Victor Schertzinger

Print: black/white
Runtime: 80 min.
Genre: musical
Print Quality: B

Harry Richman was a major stage and radio star of the 1930s, but his
overbearing personality never clicked in films. After bombing out in
1930's Puttin' on the Ritz, he tried again six years later in The Music Goes
'Round, with marginally better results. Richman plays Harry Wallace,
headliner of a Broadway revue which is just about to open. Tired of the
rehearsal grind, he runs off to the South, where he happens upon a
third-rate showboat troupe. Susanna Courtney (Rochelle Hudson),
daughter of showboat manager Hector Courtney (Walter Connolly),
mistakes Harry for an unemployed actor and hires him as a dollar-a-day bit
player. Amused by the troupe's ineptitude in presenting a "serious" Civil
War drama, Harry arranges for Susanna and her fellow thespians to
appear in his Broadway revue as a comedy act. But when Susanna finds
out she and her father are being made to look like fools in front of the
sophisticated New York audience, she upbraids the roaring crowd,
punches Harry in the mouth, and storms offstage. All works out okay in
the end when Harry contritely begs Susanna's forgiveness. A remake of
the 1928 Frank Capra film The Matinee Idol, The Music Goes 'Round is
memorable today only for its catchy title song.