Thanks a Million (1935)

Directed by

Roy Del Ruth

Genre

romance film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A struggling band and a down-on-his-luck singer get a break when a political campaign hires them to perform. The singer becomes a popular candidate and navigates the pressures of fame and romance.

lightheartedwhimsicalupbeatromanticbreezyenergeticdatedcheerful

What happens

Thanks a Million is a 1935 American 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. 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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