Star Spangled Rhythm
1942·United States·99 min.
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Pop Webster (Victor Moore) is a former silent movie star once known as "Bronco Billy" who now works as the guard on the main gate at Paramount Pictures. However, he's told his son Johnny (Eddie Bracken), who's in the Navy, that he's the studio's Executive Vice President in Charge of Production. When Johnny shows up in Hollywood on shore leave, Pop and the studio's switchboard operator Polly Judson (Betty Hutton) go all-out to maintain the illusion for Johnny and his sailor friends that Pop's a studio big-wig. Things get a bit complicated when Pop offers to put on a variety show for the Navy, featuring all of Paramount's stars, but Polly convinces Bob Hope and Bing Crosby to do the show, and they convince the rest of the stars on the lot.
DirectorGeorge Marshall
ScreenwriterMelvin Frank·George S. Kaufman·Norman Panama·Arthur A. Ross·Fred Saidy·Harry TugendShow all
MusicRobert Emmett Dolan
CastBing Crosby·Bob Hope·Fred MacMurray·Franchot Tone·Ray Milland·Victor Moore·Dorothy Lamour·Paulette Goddard·Vera Zorina·Mary Martin·Dick Powell·Betty Hutton·Macdonald Carey·Veronica Lake·Alan Ladd·William Bendix·Susan Hayward·Cecil B. DeMille·Preston Sturges·Karin Booth·Rod Cameron·Albert Dekker·Eva Gabor·Robert Preston·Woody StrodeShow all
Original titleStar Spangled Rhythm