California

Titolo originale: Can't Help Singing

1944
Approved
1h 30min

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Deanna Durbin, Leonid Kinskey, Robert Paige, and Akim Tamiroff in California (1944)

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA senator's daughter (who can't help singing) follows her boyfriend West in the days of the California gold rush.A senator's daughter (who can't help singing) follows her boyfriend West in the days of the California gold rush.A senator's daughter (who can't help singing) follows her boyfriend West in the days of the California gold rush.

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Candidato a 2 Oscar
- 2 candidature totali

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Deanna Durbin

Caroline Frost

Robert Paige

Lawlor

Akim Tamiroff

Gregory

David Bruce

Dr. Robert Latham

Leonid Kinskey

Koppa

June Vincent

Miss McLean

Ray Collins

Sen. Martin Frost

Andrew Tombes

Sad Sam

Thomas Gomez

Jake Carstairs

Clara Blandick

Aunt Cissy

Olin Howland

Bigelow
(as Olin Howlin)

George Cleveland

Marshal

Enrique Acosta

Passenger on Pier
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Eddie Acuff

Cavalry Officer
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Richard Alexander

Pioneer
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Michael Ansara

California Caballero
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Gertrude Astor

Pioneer Woman - Warren's Mother
(non citato nei titoli originali)

Roscoe Ates

Lemuel
(non citato nei titoli originali)

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This is Deanna Durbin's only Technicolor vehicle. Unfulfilled plans to showcase her in color, proposed between 1938-53, included these eventually produced films: Il primo bacio (1939) (which starred her in black and white), Il fantasma dell'opera (1943) (Susanna Foster in Technicolor), Up in Central Park (1948) (in black and white), La corte di re Artù (1949) (Rhonda Fleming in Technicolor), Sulle ali del sogno (1953) (Patrice Munsel in Technicolor), Baciami kate! (1953) (Kathryn Grayson in Anscocolor), Il principe studente (1954) (Ann Blyth in Anscocolor) and Song of Norway (1970) (Florence Henderson in Color by DeLuxe). As reported by A.H. Weiler in "The New York Times" on 8/3/1947, Deanna Durbin was being offered a black-and-white filming in Britain of Il masnadiero (1953), which ultimately featured Dorothy Tutin portraying Polly Peachum in Technicolor.

Blooper
After her bath Caroline changes into a clean white dress. However, she has had no access to her trunk where she would have kept her clothing. Such a voluminous dress couldn't have been stored in her hat-box or her small case, her only other luggage.

Citazioni
Miss McLean: [to Latham] You know the first time I saw you, you were riding in the park on a beautiful white steed. It was love at first sight. I'm convinced now it was the horse.

Connessioni
Referenced in Hollywood on Trial (1976)

Colonne sonore
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Music by Jerome Kern
(instrumental, first scene)

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Deanna's lovely voice

Can't Help Singing featuring Deanna Durbin singing those wonderful Jerome Kern-E.Y. Harburg songs either solo or with Robert Paige is nice musical entertainment. So entertaining it can even be forgiven some very illogical plot premises.

Deanna's the daughter of a United States Senator who's run away from home to catch up to her beau, cavalry lieutenant David Bruce. On the wagon train west to California she hooks up with gambler Robert Paige and a couple of Russian con artists, Akim Tamiroff and Leonid Kinsky.

Maybe I am being picky, but I cannot understand for the life of me why Deanna's father Ray Collins had such a problem with David Bruce. He sees him as an opportunist, but at the time of the California gold rush when this film is set, there was in fact a very famous marriage by an army lieutenant to a prominent Senator's daughter. That would be John C. Fremont wedding Jessie Benton, daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton.

Of course an ambitious army lieutenant is no match for his sugarplum, but hooking up with a gambler is all right. Doesn't make any sense no matter how many times I see Can't Help Singing.

Still when Jerome Kern writes the music, a whole multitude of sins are forgiven. Universal spent quite a bit of money on this film, probably more than they'd spend on three Abbott and Costello films and those two were Universal's bread and butter at this time.

In fact Kinsky and Tamiroff make a very funny pair. Maybe they should have teamed more often.

Can't Help Singing is good musical entertainment, just learn to live with the ridiculous plot.