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New Faces of 1937: Directed by Leigh Jason. With Joe Penner, Milton Berle, Harry Einstein, Harriet Nelson. A crooked producer tries to link his backers by producing a flop and disappearing with the money.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Leigh Jason
- 1937-07-02
Budget. $728,000 [1] Box office. $775,000 [1] New Faces of 1937 is a 1937 American musical film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Joe Penner, Milton Berle and Harriet Hilliard. Its plot is similar to The Producers (1968). Intended as the first film of an annual RKO Pictures revue series, poor reception ended plans for future productions.
RKO intended New Faces of 1937 to be the first of a series, introducing either new talent, or performers from stage or radio, to motion pictures. Of the "new faces," only one, Ann Miller, had a significant movie career. Another, Milton Berle, later became the first television superstar.
New Faces of 1937 was supposed to be the vanguard of a series of annual musical comedies -- RKO Radio's latest attempt to revive its long-dormant "Radio City Revels" concept. The plot is based on an old show-business legend, later immortalized in Mel Brooks' The Producers: Crooked Broadway producer Robert Hunt (Jerome Cowan) deliberately ...
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Released July 2nd, 1937, 'New Faces of 1937' stars Joe Penner, Milton Berle, Harry Parke, Harriet Nelson The NR movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 40 min, and received a user score of 40 (out of ...
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A crooked producer makes money from Broadway flops by selling more than 100% interest to multiple parties. He only fails if it makes a profit.
