5.6 /10 1 Votes
2.5/5 Rate Your Music Produced by Lucien Hubbard Cinematography Robert Kurrle Director Lloyd Bacon Music director Ray Heindorf | 6/10 IMDb Directed by Lloyd Bacon Music by Ray Heindorf Initial release 20 August 1932 (USA) Screenplay Charles Kenyon Story by Rian James | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Written by Charles Kenyon (screenplay)
Rian James (story) Starring David Manners
Ann Dvorak Cast David Manners, Ann Dvorak, Guy Kibbee, Ken Murray, J Carrol Naish Similar Ann Dvorak movies, Movies about singing, Other similar movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Crooner is a 1932 American pre-Code musical drama film directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring David Manners along with Ann Dvorak and Ken Murray. It concerns the abrupt rise and fall of a popular crooner, Ted Taylor.
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Plot
Ted Taylor is the leader of Ted Taylor's Collegians. One night, his usual singer can't sing. He decides to try out singing. However, his voice can't be heard over the band. A dancer stops and jokes with him by handing him a megaphone. Taylor sings through it, and he is heard. The ladies are enamored with his soft voice while the men are disgusted. Taylor becomes a big star over night, but his ego becomes inflated. Things come to a head when Taylor loses his temper and punches a heckler in the audience, who he didn't realize was a cripple. Shunned, he loses his girlfriend, his band, his fame, and his dignity.
Cast
Production
Donald Novis provided Ted Taylor's singing voice. Rudy Vallée was originally considered for the role of Taylor, but contracts prevented this.
Reception
"It hands a loud but quite amusing razz to all such radio performers," wrote a critic for Photoplay. "Ken Murray and Ann Dvorak help to make this bright and entertaining."