Movie: "Mad About Music"

Release Date: Feb 1938 Genres: Comedy / Drama / Musical Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Runtime: 100 min Cast: Deanna Durbin (Gloria Harkinson), Herbert Marshall (Richard Todd / Mr. Harkinson), Gail Patrick (Gwen Taylor) Arthur Treacher (Tripps) William Frawley (Dusty Turner) Marcia Mae Jones (Olga) Helen Parrish (Felice) Jackie Moran (Tommy) Elisabeth Risdon (Annette Fusenot) Nana Bryant (Louise Fusenot) Christian Rub (Pierre) Charles Peck (Henry) Sid Grauman (Himself, Sid Grauman) Cappy Barra (Leader, Harmonica Ensemble (as Cappy...) Bobby Barber (Man on Street (uncredited)) Don Brodie (Reporter (uncredited)) Ann Bupp ((uncredited)) Willy Castello ((uncredited)) Jonathan Hale (Prosecutor, Film Within a Film...) Leyland Hodgson (Man on Train (uncredited)) Selmer Jackson (Reporter (uncredited)) Charles Judels (Conductor (uncredited)) Rosemary La Planche ((uncredited)) Jack Mulhall ((uncredited)) Martha O'Driscoll (Pretty girl (uncredited)) Franklin Pangborn (Hotel Manager (uncredited)) Don Ripps ((uncredited)) Bert Roach (Conductor (uncredited)) Edwin Stanley (Defense Attorney, Film Within a Film...) John Sutton (Photographer (uncredited)) Joanne Tree (Patricia (uncredited))

Storyline

A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.