Something To Sing About (1937 Film) - Cast

Cast

• James Cagney as Thadeus McGillicuddy, aka Terrence "Terry" Rooney
• Evelyn Daw as Rita Wyatt
• William Frawley as Hank Meyers
• Mona Barrie as Stephanie "Steffie" Hajos
• Gene Lockhart as Bennett O. "B.O." Regan
• Philip Ahn as Ito, Terry's man-servant
• Marek Windheim as Mr. Farney, dialogue director
• Dwight Frye as Mr. Easton, makeup supervisor
• Johnny Arthur as Mr. Daviani, wardrobe supervisor
• William B. Davidson as Mr. Richards, nightclub owner
• Richard Tucker as Mr. Blaine, the director
• Kathleen Lockhart as Miss Amy Robbins, newspaper columnist
• James Newill as Jimmy, band member
• Harry Barris as Pinky, pianist in the band
• Cully Richards as Cully, band member

Cast notes

• Evelyn Daw, a 20-year old legit soprano from Geddes, South Dakota, was singing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic when she was "discovered" by director Schertzinger. This was her first film, and she would go on to make one more the next year, Panamint's Bad Man, a singing cowboy film. Afterwards, she continued to work in theater and opera.
• Philip Ahn, a Korean-American actor who had nearly been rejected by director Lewis Milestone from Anything Goes the prior year because his English was too good, plays Ito, a Japanese man who wants to be an actor and has instead been relegated to being a man-servant, assigned by the studio to Rooney. Ito has been forced by previous masters to speak with a thick Japanese accent and a minimum of English words. He reveals to Rooney that this is a pretense. Ito keeps the pretense up around others for most of the film, until he gets tired of being ordered around by Meyers and announces in impeccable English – amidst a cast full of accents and casual pronunciations – that he came to Hollywood to be an actor and not a servant, and that he is quitting.
• Kathleen Lockhart, who plays a newspaper columnist, was the wife of Gene Lockhart, who played the studio boss, "B.O." Regan. Their daughter, June Lockhart also became an actress., as did her daughter, Anne Lockhart.