What's Buzzin' Cousin? (1943) DVD-R

Starring Ann Miller, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, John Hubbard, Freddy
Martin
Directed by Charles Barton

Print: black/white
Runtime: 75 min.
Genre: musical
Print Quality: C

Freddy Martin (Himself) and his band go on a trailer vacation, taking along
Rochester (Eddie Anderson) as a handy man. They run out of gas in a
ghost town and have to spend the night in the deserted Palace Hotel. The
next morning, Ann Crawford (Ann Miller) and her three friends, Josie
(Leslie Brooks), Billie (Jeff Donnell) and May (Carol Hughes), arrive as
Ann has inherited the hotel and most of the surrounding property, and
she and her friends have pooled their savings to pay off the debts and
formed a company to run the hotel. Jimmie Ross (John Hubbard), singer
with the band, decides to help the girls and has the hotel done over at
his expense. Rochester, digging in the Victory Garden he has started,
finds a gold nugget and the rush is on. Gangster Pete Hartley (Bradley
Page) and his henchmen move in with intentions of taking over. He
succeeds, over Ann's protests, in buying the property from her friends.
Jimmie returns and thinks Ann has double-crossed him and they quarrel
and part. Jimmie discovers that Rochester's gold nugget was his own
gold inlay. Later, back on the radio with Freddie's band, Jimmie sings a
song especially to Ann, who he hopes is listening.