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'Sing Sinner Sing' is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Howard Christie.

Plot summary



Leila Hyams plays a singer who is accused of her husband's murder. At the time the movie was released, it was recognized as being loosely based on the 1932 Libby Holman-Zachary Smith Reynolds case."'Sing, Sinner, Sing': Moans, Groans, And Murder on a Gambling Ship," 'Newsweek' (1933).

According to Jeanne Scheper, other films inspired by "this episode of Holman's life include [...] 'Reckless' (dir. Victor Fleming, 1935), with Jean Harlow; and 'Written on the Wind' (dir. Douglas Sirk, 1956), with Lauren Bacall and Rock Hudson."Jeanne Scheper, 'Moving Performances: Divas, Iconicity, and Remembering the Modern Stage' (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016), 119 and 173;

Cast



*Paul Lukas as Phil Carida

*Leila Hyams as Lela Larson

*Don Dillaway as Ted Rendon

*Ruth Donnelly as Maggie Flannigan

*George E. Stone as Spats

*Joyce Compton as Gwen

*Jill Dennett as Sadie

*Arthur Hoyt as Uncle Homer

*Paul McGrail as Louis

*Gladys Blake as Cecily Gordon

*Arthur Housman as Jerry

*Edgar Norton as Roberts the Butler

*John St. Polis as James Parks

*Stella Adams as Aunt Emily van Puyten

*Pat O'Malley as Henchman Conley

*Walter Brennan as Henchman Riordan

Various artists, such as Lionel Hampton and Marshal Royal, can be seen playing in bands in the film.

References




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