When's Your Birthday?
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When's Your Birthday? | |
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Directed by | Harry Beaumont |
Written by | Harvey Gates Malcolm Stuart Boylan Samuel M. Pyke |
Screenplay by | Harry Clork H.W. Hanemann Richard Macaulay |
Produced by | Robert Harris David L. Loew |
Starring | Joe E. Brown Marian Marsh |
Cinematography | George Robinson |
Edited by | Jack Ogilvie |
Music by | Sam Wineland John Leipold Marlin Skiles |
Production company | David L. Loew Productions |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date | February 19, 1937 |
Running time | 75 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | English Spanish |
When's Your Birthday? (1937) is an American film directed by Harry Beaumont. While original prints of this film had a cartoon sequence in Technicolor directed by Bob Clampett and Leon Schlesinger, most prints (including the Internet Archive) have the sequence in black-and-white.
Plot summary
Dustin Willoughby (Joe E. Brown) is a prizefighter and believer in astrology, who only wins when the stars are in alignment.
Cast
- Joe E. Brown - Dustin Willoughby
- Marian Marsh - Jerry Grant
- Fred Keating - Larry Burke
- Edgar Kennedy - Mr. Henry Basscombe
- Maude Eburne - Mrs. Fanny Basscombe
- Suzanne Kaaren - Diane Basscombe
- Margaret Hamilton - Mossy - the Maid
- Minor Watson - James J. Regan
- Frank Jenks - Lefty - Regan's Henchman
- Don Rowan - Steve - Regan's Henchman
- Granville Bates - Judge O'Day
- Charles Judels - Acropolis, the Headwaiter
- Corky - Zodiac, the Dog
Soundtrack
- "Toreador Song" from Carmen by Georges Bizet
- William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini
- Happy Birthday to You by Mildred J. Hill and Patty Hill
- Ruth Robin with Manny Harmon and His Orchestra – I Love You from Coast to Coast, music and lyrics by Albert Stillman, Alex Hyde and Basil Adlam
- Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves) by Juventino Rosas
- Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa
- When the Moon Comes over the Mountain, music and lyrics by Kate Smith, Howard Johnson and Harry M. Woods
External links
- When's Your Birthday? at IMDb
- When's Your Birthday? is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from January 2011
- 1937 films
- 1930s romantic comedy films
- American films
- American romantic comedy films
- Boxing films
- English-language films
- Spanish-language films
- American black-and-white films
- RKO Pictures films
- Films directed by Harry Beaumont
- Films produced by David L. Loew
- Romantic comedy film stubs