Spotlight Scandals (1943)
NOW . . . Big-Time Vaudeville Revue!
A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry.
- Date of release
- 1943-09-24
- TMDB
- 5.0 / 10 (3)
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy, Drama, Music
- Director
- William Beaudine
Casting
- Billy Gilbert — Billy Gilbert
- Frank Fay — Frank Fay
- Bonnie Baker — Bonnie Baker
- Iris Adrian — Bernice Quigley
- Betty Blythe — Mrs. Baker
- Harry Langdon — Oscar Hammond
- Billy Lenhart — Butch Gilbert
- Kenneth Brown — Buddy Gilbert
Interesting facts
Spotlight Scandals is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by William Beaudine. It stars Billy Gilbert, Frank Fay, Bonnie Baker, and Harry Langdon.
Production
Originally called Spotlight Revue, this was the first of a four-picture contract with independent producer Sam Katzman, releasing through Monogram Pictures, teaming comic actors Billy Gilbert and Frank Fay. Katzman usually made action pictures and seldom made musicals, but he tried to add production value by hiring band singer Bonnie Baker (who had just left Orrin Tucker's orchestra), celebrity impersonators The Radio Rogues, and the big bands of…
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