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Director
  
Roy Del Ruth

Music director
  
Arthur Lange

Language
  
English

6.7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Musical, Romance

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Thanks a Million movie poster

Writer
  
Nunnally Johnson
,
Darryl F. Zanuck
,
Fred Allen
,
James Gow

Release date
  
October 25, 1935 (1935-10-25)

Screenplay
  
Darryl F. Zanuck, Nunnally Johnson

Cast
  
Dick Powell
(Eric Land),
Ann Dvorak
(Sally Mason),
Fred Allen
(Ned Lyman),
Paul Whiteman
(Himself - Bandleader),
Patsy Kelly
(Phoebe Mason),
Ramona
(Dancer)

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Thanks a Million is a 1935 musical film produced and released by 20th Century Fox and directed by Roy Del Ruth. It stars Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak and Fred Allen, and features Patsy Kelly, David Rubinoff and Paul Whiteman and his band with singer/pianist Ramona. The script by Nunnally Johnson was based on a story by producer Darryl F. Zanuck (writing as Melville Crossman) and contained uncredited additional dialogue by Fred Allen, James Gow, Edmund Gross and Harry Tugend.

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Thanks a Million was nominated for the Academy Award for Sound (E. H. Hansen) in 1935. It was remade in 1946 as If I'm Lucky, with Perry Como and Phil Silvers in the Powell and Allen roles.

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Plot

Stranded in a small town in a downpour, the manager of a traveling musical show (Fred Allen) convinces the handlers of a boring long-winded local judge running for governor (Raymond Walburn) to hire his group to attract people to the politician's rallies. When the show's crooner, Eric Land (Dick Powell), upstages the judge, he's fired, but on a return visit he saves the day by standing in for the judge, who is too drunk to speak.

Impressed by his poise, the party's bosses ask Eric to take over as candidate. The singer, knowing he has no chance to win, agrees for the exposure and the radio airtime in which he can showcase his singing. Soon, though, his girlfriend Sally (Ann Dvorak) becomes annoyed at the amount of time Eric is spending with the wife of one of the bosses, and she leaves when she thinks he has lied to her.

When the bosses ask Eric to agree to patronage appointments that will lead to easy graft for all of them, he exposes them on the radio, telling the voters that voting for him would be a huge mistake and urging them to vote for his opponent. At the end Eric is, of course, elected governor, then reunited with Sally.

Cast

  • Dick Powell as Eric Land
  • Ann Dvorak as Sally Mason
  • Fred Allen as Ned Allen
  • Patsy Kelly as Phoebe Mason
  • Raymond Walburn as Judge Culliman
  • Benny Baker as Tammany
  • Alan Dinehart as Mr. Kruger
  • Andrew Tombes as Mr. Grass
  • Paul Harvey as Maxwell
  • Edwin Maxwell as Mr. Casey
  • Charles Richman as Gov. Wildman
  • Paul Whiteman as Himself
  • Ramona as Herself
  • David Rubinoff as Himself
  • Yacht Club Boys

    • Songs

  • I'm Sittin' High On A Hill Top
  • Thanks A Million

    • References

    Thanks a Million Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Thanks a Million IMDbThanks a Million themoviedb.org


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