Rhythm on the River (1940)
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.
- Date of release
- 1940-08-28
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Genres
- Comedy, Music
- Director
- Victor Schertzinger
Casting
- Bing Crosby — Bob Sommers
- Mary Martin — Cherry Lane
- Basil Rathbone — Oliver Courtney
- Oscar Levant — Billy Starbuck
- Oscar Shaw — Charlie Goodrich
- Charley Grapewin — Uncle Caleb
- Lillian Cornell — Millie Starling
- William Frawley — Mr. Westlake
- Jeanne Cagney — Country cousin
- Charles Lane — Bernard Schwartz
- John Scott Trotter — Orchestra Leader
- Helen Bertram — Aunt Delia
Interesting facts
Rhythm on the River is a 1940 American musical comedy film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Bing Crosby and Mary Martin as ghostwriters whose songs are credited to a composer played by Basil Rathbone. Crosby and Martin sang "Only Forever", for which James V. Monaco (music) and Johnny Burke (lyrics) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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