Top billed cast

1. 

   James Cagney

   Terry Rooney

2. 

   Evelyn Daw

   Rita Wyatt

3. 

   William Frawley

   Hank Mayers

4. 

   Mona Barrie

   Stephanie Hajos

5. 

   Gene Lockhart

   Bennett O. Regan

6. 

   Philip Ahn

   Ito

7. 

   Marek Windheim

   Farney

8. 

   Dwight Frye

   Easton

9. 

   Johnny Arthur

   Daviani

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-08-11

There aren’t many actors who can go from menacing gangster to top-hatted crooner, but James Cagney was one of them, and he does it quite amiably in this comedy. With the unwieldy name of “Thaddeus McGillicuddy”, he is a band-leader in New York who is offered a contract in Hollywood but after a bit of stunt fisticuffs goes quite spectacularly wrong, he throws in that towel and heads off on a vacation with his fiancée “Rita” (Evelyn Daw). Unbeknownst to him, though, the cameras were running all through his lively studio-trashing exhibition, the film was released and now he’s a star!...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$900,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• musical
• bandleader