One Hundred Men and a Girl is a 1937 musical comedy film, written by Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning and James Mulhauser from a story by Hanns Kräly and directed by Henry Koster. It was the first of two motion pictures featuring the famed orchestra leader Leopold Stokowski, and is also the film for which Deanna Durbin is best remembered as an actress and a singer in film.
Patsy Cardwell (Deanna Durbin), the daughter of struggling musician John Card...
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One Hundred Men and a Girl is a 1937 musical comedy film, written by Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning and James Mulhauser from a story by Hanns Kräly and directed by Henry Koster. It was the first of two motion pictures featuring the famed orchestra leader Leopold Stokowski, and is also the film for which Deanna Durbin is best remembered as an actress and a singer in film.
Patsy Cardwell (Deanna Durbin), the daughter of struggling musician John Cardwell, (Adolphe Menjou) forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends following a chance encounter with a society maven (Alice Brady). When the maven realizes that Patsy took her blandishments seriously, she flees to Europe. This forces her husband, John R. Frost (Eugene Pallette), to break to John and his friends the harsh reality: that he cannot sponsor them, as they had supposed, unless they attract a well-recognized guest conductor to launch them on their opening night.
Patsy, undaunted, sets out to recruit none other than...
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