Directed by:
William DieterleScreenplay:
Philip YordanCinematography:
J. Roy HuntComposer:
Leith StevensCast:
Adolphe Menjou, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, George Bancroft, Robert Benchley, Walter Catlett, Ted North, Frank Jenks, Mona Barrie, Benny Goodman (more)Plots(1)
Covering a quarter-century of American 'syncopated' music (Ragtime, Jazz, Swing, Blues, Boogie Woogie) from prior to WWI through prohibition, the stock-market crash, the depression and the outbreak of WWII. A romance between singer Kit Latimer, from New Orleans, and Johnny Schumacher, in which they share and argue over musical ideas ensues. (Cohen Media Group)
(more)Cast
Dewey Robinson
USA
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
Scarlet Street (1945)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
Gertrude Messinger
USA
Best movies:
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Our Relations (1936)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Mickey Simpson
USA
Best movies:
Giant (1956)
King Rat (1965)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Joe Devlin
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Frank O'Connor
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Leith Stevens
USA
Best movies:
Syncopation (1942)
Jerry Hausner
USA
Best movies:
Paths of Glory (1957)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Hugo the Hippo (1975)
John Hamilton
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Ralph Dunn
USA
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Ken Terrell
USA
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Spartacus (1960)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Proud Ones (1956)
Clinton Rosemond
USA
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The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
Golden Boy (1939)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Spec O'Donnell
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20's (1965) - a.f.
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Dudley Dickerson
USA
Best movies:
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Shall We Dance? (1937)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Maurice Cass
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
State of the Union (1948)
Syncopation (1942)
Eddie Hart
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Love Crazy (1941)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Sidney Miller
USA
Best movies:
Strike Up the Band (1940)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Joseph E. Bernard
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
History Is Made at Night (1937)
Charles R. Moore
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Sammy Stein
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Jesse Graves
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
It Started with Eve (1941)