1h 16min | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 8 September 1944
Director: Sam Newfield
Stars: Martha Tilton, Iris Adrian, Charles Collins
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037336/
Watched on AmazonPrime, fuzzy print. Also on a megapack.
Regarding the synopsis above: I didn't see MT as having achieved success before the final scene, and even then "riches" are not assured. MT really does have a lovely voice; Benny Goodman was no fool.
The title refers to a jukebox service where the records reside at a central location, and the jukebox is a telephone device with speaker where the patron actually talks with the Hostess to request the record to be played.
Confusion occurs early when MT's custom recording is thought to belong to the producer's favorite (who really can't sing). Good old Iris Adrian, the brassy blonde with voice to match is the best friend, who tries to help MT as an almost-manager, much like her role in Career Girl ('44). I like her a lot.
It takes the entire movie to straighten out the early mistake, and the journey is fun. The other boarders at MT's showbiz rooming house help in the resolution, so they are justified for more than comic relief. MT sings 6 songs, and the impostor butchers 2 of them. (Wow, the songs are all by Livingston and Evans, famous for Que Sera, Sera, Buttons and Bows, Silver Bells and Mona Lisa. Nothing here is nearly that good.) Romance also blooms, so we get the Happily Ever After feeling at The End.
With a better print, this would probably be a 6+.
indie, distr. PRC, dir. Newfield; 6
