(81 min) Released 1938-03-18
Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Jack Haley, Gloria Stuart, Helen Westley, William Demarest, Bill Robinson, Raymond Scott & Quintet.
Nick Castle ... dances staged by
Geneva Sawyer ... dances staged by
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030657/
Here we go again: the IMDb Soundtracks list Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, written by Leon Jessel, "arranged by Raymond Scott" as the song to which ST and BR dance. Nope, it's the next one down, The Toy Trumpet, written by Raymond Scott. I don't think Jessel's song is in the movie. They have similarities, but even the dvd labels the last chapter The Toy Trumpet, which is where the number appears. I'll submit another correction. (I just FFWd through the whole movie; this is the only dance number. Did they really need 2 dance directors to design how the 12 chorus boys would stand? BR does his own choreography, after all.)
We have plenty of other songs, but only 2 other moments where Robinson taps, the total number of those taps is fewer than 20, and he has fewer than 10 lines to speak. So if you're playing this for him, go directly to the last scene. We get one more movie pairing ST & BR, and it's in '38.
The plot is typical ST: orphan gets passed between her stepfather (Demarest) and her (great?) aunt (Westley), depending on whether she can make a buck for the stepfather.
Fox, dir. Dwan; 6
