(91 min) Released 1937-08-07
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Stars: Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Alice Faye, Jack Haley, Patsy Kelly, Ned Sparks, The Condos Brothers
Jack Haskell ... choreographer
Genres: Musical
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029744/
Immediately after the credits we get The Condos Brothers tapping at 1:50 - 3:25, wearing white tuxedos with tails. The jackets are trying to fly off when the wave their arms during wings, and I swear you can see arms without full shirts.
Their 2nd and final appearance is at 24:40 - 26:00, dancing seated, enabling me to get screenshots of their faces.
They're not credited in the opening titles, but in the closing as Condos Brothers, in IMDb as Steve (b. 1918) and Nick (b. 1915), each with "(as Condos Brothers)" in their credit. N.B., IMDb has LOTS of credit info that does not appear onscreen. Hopefully most of it is taken from studio documents or other credible sources. But there's no way to know if these 2 brothers were named here by a fan who decided they recognized them, or if the credits come from a reliable source, say Nick's daughter. <sigh> I'll write about this more in a separate blog on the identification of these brothers; when complete I'll place a link here.
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| Choosing between names Nick and Steve, I choose Nick as the left one. In the prior routine he did the fast tap that should be the 5-point wing. The right face is younger, and Steve is under 20 when this is released. The 1990 (pre-internet) book Tap! by Rusty Frank has a few photos of Nick and Steve, and my choice agrees with labeling there. |
The plot involves Jack Haley being a good singer with stage experience in the hinterlands, who is convinced before his first NYC radio audition (by studio guard William Demarest) to be terrified of the mic. Alice Faye has a self-help radio show in the same building, and tries to help Jack past his phobia. The Bernie/Winchell feud pads the story.
Without the Condos Bros and AF singing, this would be a 5.
Fox, dir. Lanfield; 6-
