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Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934)

• Director
  • Ray Enright
• Writers
  • Warren Duff(screen play)
  • Harry Sauber(screen play)
  • Paul Finder Moss(based on story "Hot Air' by)
• Stars
  • Dick Powell
  • Pat O'Brien
  • Ginger Rogers

  A satire on radio crooners, Twenty Million Sweethearts stars Dick Powell as a singing waiter--fake handlebar mustache and all. Publicity man Pat O'Brien discovers Powell and gets him a radio gig, leading to nationwide adulation for the nonplused tenor. All of this jeopardizes Powell's happy marriage to Ginger Rogers, but he proves faithful to her despite the twenty million sweethearts (i.e. female radio fans) referred to in the title. Twenty Million Sweethearts is fitfully amusing, with some of the best moments concentrated at the beginning wherein the Radio Rogues imitate several popular personalities of the airwaves. This film was remade in 1949 as My Dream Is Yours, with Doris Day (!) in the Dick Powell role but with the same "signature" tune, "I'll String Along with You."