Let's Make Music (1941)
An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.
- Date of release
- 1941-01-17
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Genres
- Music, Romance
- Director
- Leslie Goodwins
Casting
- Bob Crosby — Bob Crosby
- Jean Rogers — Abby Adams
- Elisabeth Risdon — Malvina Adams
- Joseph Buloff — Joe Bellah
- Joyce Compton — Betty
- Benny Bartlett — Tommy
- Louis Jean Heydt — Mr. Stevens
- Frank Orth — Mr. Botts
- Grant Withers — Headwaiter
- Jimmy Conlin — Tim
- Charles Trowbridge — Doctor
- Benny Rubin — Music Publisher
Interesting facts
Let's Make Music is a 1941 American musical film directed by Leslie Goodwins and starring Bob Crosby, Jean Rogers and Elisabeth Risdon. It was produced by RKO Pictures and written by Nathanael West. The film's songs include the classic "Big Noise from Winnetka".
Production notes
In April 1940 Nathanael West, then a contract writer at RKO Pictures, was asked to work on a script, tentatively named Malvina Swings It, which writer Charles Roberts failed to complete satisfactorily. After working on the screenplay for almost ten nonconsecutive weeks, West had turned it into Let's Make Music, which hoped to benefit from Bob Crosby's popularity. The rewriting was so significant West received solo screenwriting credit.
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