The read
It runs a compact 1h 14m.
Synopsis
Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA show at the Garrick Theater in New York and are stunned when the government withdraws their funding on the day of the show's dress rehearsal. Destitute, the troupe plans to return home when Mac, the stage doorman, offers to allow four of the men, Phil, Dandy, Jack and Ted, to use the theater for a boardinghouse. After accepting Mac's offer, the men improvise bedrooms out of the set pieces and meet amateur actress Lorie Fenton from Cleveland, who is eager to audition for them. When the men learn she recently received a small inheritance, they allow her to audition, hoping she will back the show.
Ratings
5 audience votes
Key crew
- Joseph SantleyDirector
- Allen RivkinScreenplay
- Maurice RapfScreenplay
- Victor YoungOriginal Music Composer
- Anne Morrison ChapinScreenplay
Cast
- Robert PaigeTed Brooks
- Peter Lind HayesDandy Joslyn
- Eddie QuillanJack Norcross
- Frank JenksPhil Miller
- Grace McDonaldLorie Fenton
- Virginia DaleDolly Stewart
- Carol AdamsPolly Adams
- Lillian CornellDoris Marlowe
- William FrawleyMac
- Charles LaneFreeman Taylor
- Wanda McKayLulu
- Arthur AylesworthJoe Phillips