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Ready, willing and able [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. ; executive producers, Jack L. Warner and Hal B. Wallis ; associate producer, Sam Bischoff ; director, Ray Enright ; writers, Jerry Wald, Sig Herzig and Warren Duff ; additional dialogue, Maurice Leo and Pat C. Flick ; contributors to treatment, Ben Markson and Mary McCall, Jr. ; contributor to screenplay construction, Lew Lipton.

[S.l.] : Turner Entertainment Co. ; Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2009.

"Barry Granville and Pinky Blair, two would-be theatrical producers, get financing for their new musical on the condition that they hire Jane Clarke, a popular British actress, to star in it. In New York City, J. Van Courtland, a theatrical agent, learns of the project and rushes to meet the ship he believes Jane is taking to America. He mistakes an American girl, also named Jane Clarke, for the English actress and signs her to a contract. Jane, a college student who hopes to become an actress, impersonates the British actress in order to perform on Broadway and also because she has fallen in love with Barry. Although her dancing is fine, she cannot sing, and eventually confesses the truth to Barry, not realizing that the show's financing depends on the presence of the English Jane. Meanwhile, the English Jane is threatening to sue the company backing the production, and the company tries to break the contract. Barry reminds them that he has a contract to produce the show and will hold them to it. The company wants to produce the show themselves, however, and sends for the star, offering her more money than before. Pinky, Jane, her friend Angie and Van meet the boat and prevent Edward McNeil, the head of the company, from signing her. Even so, the actress refuses to sign with Barry until Van recognizes her as an American girl who used to have a seal act in vaudeville. She agrees to appear for Barry in return for Van's silence. Van also forces Barry to put Jane to work in the chorus. Still feeling badly for the trouble she caused Barry, Jane convinces Truman Hardy, her fiancé, to put up the money so the show can open. Barry, however, refuses to forgive Jane until Van tells him everything that she has done to help the show. Barry relents and tells Jane that he loves her"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940.

Archive collection

Archive collection.

Fiction films.

Actresses -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

English -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.

Popular music -- United States -- 1931-1940.

Enright, Ray, 1896-1965, director.

Turner Entertainment Co.

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Comedy with songs; feature.

Based on the story Ready, willing and able, by Richard Macaulay, first published in The Saturday evening post on September 13, 1935. Originally released as a motion picture in 1937.

Credits supplied from: AFI catalog, 1931-1940.

Originally distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

Playing time on release was 83 or 93 min., according to: AFI catalog, 1931-1940.

Dialogue director, Gene Lewis; assistant director, Lee Katz; photography, Sol Polito; art director, Carl Jules Weyl; editor, Doug Gould; gowns, Howard Shoup; music, Leo F. Forbstein; orchestral arrangement, Ray Heindorf; musical numbers directed and staged by Bobby Connolly. Songs: Too marvelous for words, Just a quiet evening, and Sentimental and melancholy, music and lyrics by Johnny Mercer and Richard Whiting.

Ruby Keeler (Jane Clarke); Lee Dixon (Pinky Blair); Allen Jenkins (J. Van Courtland); Louise Fazenda (Clara Heineman); Ross Alexander (Barry Granville); Carol Hughes (Angie); Hugh O'Connell (Truman Hardy); Wini Shaw (Jane Clarke); Teddy Hart (Yip Nolan); Addison Richards (Edward McNeil); Shaw & Lee (moving men); E.E. Clive (Sir Samuel Buffington); Jane Wyman (Dot); May Boley (Mrs. Beadle); Charles Halton (Brockman); Adrian Rosley (Angelo); Lillian Kemble Cooper (Mrs. Buffington); Barnett Parker (waiter); Dickie Jones (kid); Myrtle Stedman (mother); Thomas Pogue (captain); Milt Kibbee (steward); Ferdinand Schumann-Heink (purser); George Andre Beranger, Bobby Watson, Hal Neiman, Al Herman (actors); Dennis Moore, Carlyle Moore, Jr., Jeffrey Sayre (reporters); Saul Gorss (cameraman); Gertrude Pedlar, William Worthington (elderly couple); Elsa Buchanan (maid); Ferdinand Munier (Mr. Twittingham); Herbert Ashley (doorman); Harry Jackson (piano player); Helen Valkis (operator); Cliff Saum (Yip's assistant); Billy Arnold (customs man); Jack Wise (young arranger).

DVD; Dolby digital.

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