Star Spangled Rhythm
Star Spangled Rhythm is a 1942 allstar cast musical film made by Paramount Pictures during World War II as a morale booster. Many of the Hollywood studios produced such films during the war, generally musicals, frequently with flimsy storylines, and with the specific intent of entertaining the troops overseas and civilians back home and to encourage fundraising as well as to show the studios patriotism. This film was also the first released by Paramount to be shown forweeks.
Pop Webster Victor Moore is a former silent movie star once known as Bronco Billy who now works as the guard on the main gate at Paramount Pictures. However, hes told his son Johnny Eddie Bracken, whos in the Navy, that hes the studios Executive Vice President in Charge of Production. When Johnny shows up in Hollywood on shore leave, Pop and the studios switchboard operator Polly Judson Betty Hutton go allout to maintain the illusion for Johnny and his sailor friends that Pops a studio bigwig. Things get a bit complicated when Pop offers to put on a variety show for the Navy, featuring all of Paramounts stars, but Polly convinces Bob Hope and Bing Crosby to do the show, and they convince the rest of the stars on the lot.The working title of Star Spangled Rhythm was Thumbs Up. Paramount paid Arthur Ross and Fred Saidy for the rights to two sketches from their musical revue Rally Round the Girls, which were used in the film. The That Old Black Magic sequence, which was directed by A. Edward Sutherland, was intended to be directed by Ren Clair, who was unavailable at the time of shooting. ........
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