Mad About Music

Mad About Music is a 1938 American musical film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, and Gail Patrick. Based on a story by Marcella Burke and Frederick Kohner, the film is about a girl at an exclusive boarding school who invents an exciting father. When her schoolmates doubt his existence, she has to produce him. Mad About Music received Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Music, and Best Original Story.

Gloria never sees her Mother and never knew her Father, who died when she was just a baby he was a navy pilot during wartime. She has invented a fictitious father, from who she receives letters, which she writes herself. But the other girls are getting curious and Gloria decides to kid them that hes about to visit her. Felice Helen Parrish, another girl at the school, is suspicious and tries to prove that her father doesnt exist.The girls often meet the boys from a nearby boarding school. One of them, Tommy, Jackie Moran, has a crush on her, and she likes him as well. At a church service, Gloria sings, Ave Maria BachGounod with a boys choir. ........

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