LET'S SING AGAIN

Let's Sing Again
Principal Productions / RKO, 1936, B/W, 70 minutes, ***
Released May, 1936

Eight-year-old boy soprano Billy Gordon (Bobby Breen) runs away from an orphanage to join a traveling show, where he's taken in by washed-up opera singer Joe Pasquale (Henry Armetta). Joe helps Billy develop his singing voice. When he becomes ill, Pasquale takes Billy to New York and during an opera performance Billy is reunited with his real father.

Produced by: Sol Lesser
Directed by: Kurt Neumann
Assistant Director: Fred Tyler
Written by: Don Swift
Adaptation and Screen Play by: Don Swift and Dan Jarrett
Sory Supervision: Harry Chandlee
Production Manager: Edward Gross
Art Director: Ben Carre
Musical Setting Conceived and Directed by: Hugo Reisenfeld
Associate: Abe Meyer
Songs: "Let's Sing Again" by Jimmy McHugh and Gus Kahn, "Lullaby" by Hugo Reisenfeld and Selma Hautzik, "Farmer in the Dell" by Samuel Pokrass and Charles O. Locke
Sound Engineer: Richard E. Tyler
Photography: Harry Neumann
Film Editor: Robert Crandall

Cast: Bobby Breen [Billy Gordon], Henry Armetta [Joe Pasquale], George Houston [Leon Alba], Vivienne Osborne [Rosa Donelli], Grant Withers [Jim "Diablo" Wilkins], Inez Courtney [Marge Wilkins], Lucien Littlefield [Superintendent Henry Perkins], Richard Carle [Carter], Clay Clement [Jackson], Ann Doran [Alice Alba]

Musical Program: [0:01] Lullaby (excerpt sung by George Houston while rocking baby Billy); [0:06] Pop Goes the Weasel (with special lyric, sung by Bobby Breen and Boys at orphanage); [0:28] Let's Sing Again (sung by Bobby Breen); [0:32] Lullaby (excerpt sung by Bobby Breen); [0:40] The Two Grenadiers (excerpt sung by George Houston); [0:42] La Donna e Mobile (from the opera RIGOLETTO) (excerpt sung by Bobby Breen); [0:43] Let's Sing Again (sung by Bobby Breen); [0:52] Oh Marie (excerpt sung by Bobby Breen); [1:00] Farmer in the Dell (sung by George Houston); [1:02] Lullaby (sung by George Houston then by Bobby Breen)