Movie #240 "Something to Sing About" was an attempt for jimmy Cagney to beef up a lesser known production company in exchange for allowing him to be a song and dance man, which he felt he was meant to be (rather than the Gangster Warner Brothers made him out to be). Anyway, he makes the part believable, and he's charming in the part, one that supposedly his good friend Fred Astaire helped him with. But this film shows its age ------it's too slow moving from one production number to the other. I could dose off and still not miss the plot (and I do believe I did a few times here). Thin on plot, but interesting revelation on exactly what a publicist did then ---------and one can just imagine what he/she does now to sell the film!
Something to Sing About (1937)
I give it 3 stars
Popular New York band leader Terry Rooney (Cagney) is offered a lucrative film contract out in Hollywood. Rooney and his wife pack up and head for California. Upon arriving, they meet Mr. Regan, the head of the studio, who believes that Rooney's true lack of desire for stardom is arrogance on the band leaders part. When his first film is huge success and hit for the studio, Regan tries to hide the truth from Rooney. Feeling a need to get away from Hollywood, Rooney takes his wife on a South Seas cruise, only to return to the real truth of his fame
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