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The Hard-Boiled Canary (1941)

The Hard-Boiled Canary poster
Directed by
Andrew L. Stone
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rated
NR
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young singer with a beautiful voice joins a summer music camp run by a strict professor. She falls in love with the camp's handsome music teacher and they perform together in a big concert.

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What happens

The Hard-Boiled Canary is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by Andrew L. Stone and written by Robert Lively and Andrew L. Stone. It was later reissued as There's Magic in Music. The film stars Allan Jones, Susanna Foster, Margaret Lindsay, Lynne Overman, Grace Bradley, William Collier Sr. and Heimo Haitto. It was released on June 8, 1941, by Paramount Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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