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Stage Struck (1936)

• Director
  • Busby Berkeley
• Writers
  • Tom Buckingham(screen play)
  • Pat C. Flick(screen play)
  • Robert Lord(story)
• Stars
  • Dick Powell
  • Joan Blondell
  • Warren William

  Stage Struck is one of the least known of Busby Berkeley's Warner Bros. musicals, chiefly because there are no major production numbers. The plot is that old saw about young, unknown hopefuls who put on a Big Show and become overnight stars. Alas, the magic didn't work for leading lady Jeanne Madden, who disappeared from films shortly after this brief bid for fame. The film's highlight is a satirical number by the Yacht Club Boys, a "nut" singing group best described as the Gentile Ritz Brothers. The songs for Stage Struck were written by E. Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen, whose talents would be displayed to better advantage in 1939's Wizard of Oz.