Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
Sing! Swing Youth Has Its Fling!
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
- Date of release
- 1937-03-06
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- Director
- Ray Enright
Casting
- Ruby Keeler — Jane
- Lee Dixon — Pinky Blair
- Allen Jenkins — J. Van Courtland
- Louise Fazenda — Clara Heineman
- Ross Alexander — Barry Granville
- Carol Hughes — Angie
- Hugh O'Connell — Truman Hardy
- Wini Shaw — Jane Clarke
- Teddy Hart — Yip Nolan
- Jane Wyman — Dot
- Addison Richards — Edward McNeil
- Al Shaw — Moving Man
Interesting facts
Ready, Willing and Able is a 1937 American musical film directed by Ray Enright and starring Ruby Keeler, Lee Dixon, Allen Jenkins and Ross Alexander. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Songs in the film were written by composer Richard A. Whiting and lyricist Johnny Mercer. The most successful song introduced by Wini Shaw and Ross Alexander, and reprised throughout, was "Too Marvelous for Words", which has become a pop and jazz standard.
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