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Essentials in
History
Silver Screen Appearances
Updated: 3/29/2004 5:42:00 PM
The Buffalo Bills weren't the only barbershop quartet to make it to the silver screen as the quartet in The Music Man.
Movie fans! You'll notice some gaps in our movie info. Can you fill in the missing plot? Quartet? Songs? Ride to our rescue at museum@spebsqsa.org.
Animal Crackers 1930
Paramount: Comedy
Plot = ?; starring the Marx Brothers. Loosely based on a play by George Kaufmann.
Marx Brothers sing "My Old Kentucky Home" towards the end of the film. (But is it barbershop?)
Monkey Business 1931
Paramount: Comedy
Four stowaways aboard a luxury cruiser crash the party and wreak havoc; starring the Marx Brothers.
The Marx Brothers sing "Sweet Adeline" while hiding in barrels of kippered herring.
Git Along Little Dogies 1937
Republic Pictures: Western
Plot = ?; starring Gene Autry
Maple City Four sing "Ridin' the Range" and "Chinatown".
Terror of Tiny Town 1938
Musical Western
Plot = ?; unique for all little people cast
Three barber shop customers and shoe-shine boy (=?) sing "Daughter of Sweet Caroline".
Under Western Skies 1938
Republic Pictures: Western
Plot = ?; starring Roy Rogers
Maple City Four sing "Rhythm of the Range" and "Dust".
The Strawberry Blonde 1941
Warner: Comedy/Drama
Dentist in early 1900s wonders if he married the wrong girl, but discovers he didn't after all; starring James Cagney and Rita Hayworth. Based on a play by James Hagan. [Remake of One Sunday Afternoon (1933) w/Gary Cooper and Frances Farmer; remade as One Sunday Afternoon (1948) w/ Dennis Morgan and Dorothy Malone.]
Studio quartet (?) sings parts of "Wait Till The Sun Shines, Nellie" and "In The Evening By The Moonlight" in a barber shop; later a different quartet sings chorus of "Love Me And The World Is Mine" in a beer hall.
My Gal Sal 1942
20th Century-Fox: Musical
The life and love of songwriter Paul Dreiser; starring Victor Mature and Rita Hayworth. Based on the book My Brother Paul by Theodore Dreiser.
Quartet (=?) composed of two barbers and two customers sings "On The Banks Of The Wabash" at opening of the film; quartet sings "My Gal Sal" while on a ferris wheel near close of the film.
They Were Expendable 1945
MGM: Drama
Story of men and PT (patrol torpedo) boats in the Philippines during WW II; starring John Wayne.
Quartet (=?) sings "Dear Old Gal" during officers' dinner.
Harvey Girls, The 1946
MGM: Musical
Story of the Harvey Girls (waitresses of the Harvey Railroad Restaurant chain) bringing civilization and white linen napkins to the western frontier; starring Judy Garland.
Quartet (=?) sings=?.
Home in Oklahoma 1946
Republic Pictures: Western
Plot = ?; starring Roy Rogers
Flying L Ranch Quartet sings=?.
The Jolson Story 1946
Columbia: Drama
Rise of Al Jolson as the premier singer-entertainer of his day; starring Larry Parks (w/ Jolson dubbed in for the songs).
Quartet (=?) sings=?.
One Sunday Afternoon 1948
Warner Brothers: Musical
Dentist in early 1900s wonders if he married the wrong girl, but discovers he didnıt after all; starring Dennis Morgan and Dorothy Malone. Based on a play by James Hagan. [Remake of The Strawberry Blonde (1941) w/ James Cagney and Rita Hayworth, which was a remake of One Sunday Afternoon (1933) w/ Gary Cooper and Frances Farmer.]
Quartet (=?) sings=?.
A Song is Born 1948
Goldwyn: Musical comedy
Eight secluded, bachelor professors working on an enclyclopedia get to the music entry, meet a jazz singer, and are never the same; starring Danny Kaye and Virgina Mayo. [Remake of Ball of Fire (1941) w/ Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck.]
Quartet (=?) sings=?.
In The Good Old Summertime 1949
MGM: Musical comedy
Romance and drama with music shop employees in 1906 Chicago; starring Judy Garland and Van Johnson. [Remake of Shop Around the Corner (1939) w/ Margaret Sullavan and Jimmy Stewart.]
Quartet (=?) sings "Wait Til the Sun Shines, Nellie", and then "Mr. Jefferson Lord, Play That Barbershop Chord" with Judy Garland.
Wait Til The Sun Shines, Nellie 1952
20th Century-Fox:
The life of a small-town barber who organizes his own quartet; starring David Wayne and Jean Peters. Based on the book I Heard Them Sing by Ferdinand Reyher.
Quartet (=?) sings "Wait Til The Sun Shines, Nellie" & "some other songs".
Lady And The Tramp 1955
Disney: Musical (animated)
Romantic adventures of a cocker spaniel (Lady) and a mutt (the Tramp).
Four dogs in a pound howl/sing. Quartet (=?) sings=?.
Picnic 1955
Columbia: Drama
Drifter comes to a small Kansas town one summer and breaks up his buddyıs romance; starring William Holden, Kim Novak, and Cliff Robertson. Based on a play by William Inge.
Quartet (=?) sings=?.
The Music Man 1962
Warner Brothers: Musical
A con man selling bands hits a small Iowa town and falls in love with the local librarian; starring Robert Preston and Shirley Jones. Based on the Broadway musical The Music Man by Meredith Willson.
Buffalo Bills, as four townsmen who quarrel constantly until brought together as a quartet, sing "Lida Rose", "Sincere", "Goodnight Ladies", and "Itıs You" at various points during the story, as well as having some incidental business throughout the film.
Jungle Book, The 1969
Disney: Musical (animated)
The adventures of a boy raised by jungle animals. Based on the book The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.
Four animated vultures sing "Thatıs What Friends Are For". Quartet (=?)
Charlotte's Web 1972
Hanna-Barbera: Musical (animated)
The friendship of a spider and a pig. Based on the book Charlotte'sWeb by E.B. White.
Pacificaires sing "Zuckerman's Pig".
Slaughterhouse Five 1972
Universal:
A man experiences his life via random flashbacks; starring Michael Sachs. Based on the novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
Top Drawers sing "That Old Gang of Mine" while dazed survivors of the bombing of Dresden survey the ruins of the city, and "You'll Never Know the Good Fellow I've Been" during a plane crash.
Rollercoaster 1977
Universal: Suspense
A terrorist is sabatoging rollercosters in amusement parks around the country and a safety inspector is out to stop him; starring George Segal and Timothy Bottoms.
Quartet (= Mike Senter, Bob Summers, Tim McDonald??) sing=? as a robotic quartet. Their singing throughout the movie is triggered by photo-sensitive cells.
Oliver's Story 1978
Paramount: Drama
After the love of his life dies in Love Story, Oliver slides into a depression but then finds another girl; starring Ryan O'Neal and Candice Bergen.
Quartet (=?) sings=? for Oliver's father (Ray Milland) at his retirement party.
Wholly Moses 1980
Columbia: Comedy
Shepherd overhears God talking to Moses and thinks he's the recipient of the divine directives; starring Dudley Moore.
Yerfadder's Mustache, wearing striped robes with armbands, entertain the king (Richard Pryor) by "loo-loo-loo"-ing to a nameless tune for about nine seconds.
Hoosiers 1986
Orion: Drama
Coach with a mysterious past takes an Indiana high school basketball team to victory; starring Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, and Dennis Hopper.
Travel-Aires sing "The Star-Spangled Banner".
Scenes From A Mall 1991
Warner: Comedy
A married couple reveal their secrets, break up, and reconcile while on a massive shopping spree in a Beverly Hills mall on their wedding anniversary; starring Woody Allen and Bette Midler.
Quartet (=?) sings=? as part of general background in mall.
The Babe 1992
Universal: Drama
The life of Babe Ruth; starring John Goodman.
Chiefs of Staff, as the Royal Rooters quartet, sing "Here Come the Bostons" (song written by SPEB exec-director Joe Liles).
Jingle All The Way 1996
20th Century-Fox: Comedy
A workaholic father tries to make amends for neglecting his family and finds himself in a desperate search for the one toy his son wants for Christmas; starring Arnold Swarzenegger and Jim Belushi.
Yerfadder's Mustache, as four of a group of mall Santa Clauses who have the coveted toy, sing "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot" with Jim Belushi (the head Santa) at lead [a rather drifting and wandering lead, apparently] while the rest of the Santas sing in the background.
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