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When's Your Birthday?

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'When's Your Birthday?' is a 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Joe E. Brown. While original prints of this film had a cartoon sequence in Technicolor directed by Bob Clampett and Leon Schlesinger, most surviving prints (including the Internet Archive) have the sequence in black-and-white.

Premise



Dustin Willoughby (Joe E. Brown) is a prizefighter and believer in astrology who only wins when the stars are in alignment.

Cast



*Joe E. Brown - Dustin Willoughby

*Marian Marsh - Jerry Grant

*Fred Keating - Larry Burke

*Edgar Kennedy - Mr. Henry Basscombe

*Maude Eburne - Mrs. Fanny Basscombe

*Suzanne Kaaren - Diane Basscombe

*Margaret Hamilton - Mossy - the Maid

*Minor Watson - James J. Regan

*Frank Jenks - Lefty - Regan's Henchman

*Don Rowan - Steve - Regan's Henchman

*Granville Bates - Judge O'Day

*Charles Judels - Acropolis, the Headwaiter

*Corky - Zodiac, the Dog

*Bobby Barber - Waiter Who Drops Flower Pot (uncredited)

*Ward Bond - Police Detective (uncredited)

*Kit Guard - Ringside Cornerman (uncredited)

*Tom Kennedy - Fight Manager (uncredited)

*Bull Montana - (The) Salvador Slayer (uncredited)

Soundtrack



*"Toreador Song" from 'Carmen' by Georges Bizet

*'William Tell' Overture by Gioachino Rossini

*'Happy Birthday to You' by Mildred J. Hill and Patty Hill

*Ruth Robin with Manny Harmon and His Orchestra 'I Love You from Coast to Coast', music and lyrics by Albert Stillman, Alex Hyde and Basil Adlam

*'Sobre las Olas' (Over the Waves) by Juventino Rosas

*'Stars and Stripes Forever' by John Philip Sousa

*'When the Moon Comes over the Mountain', music and lyrics by Kate Smith, Howard Johnson and Harry M. Woods


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