Can't Help Singing (1944)
1h 30m
Running Time
December 25, 1944Release Date
Can't Help Singing (1944)
1h 30m
Running Time
December 25, 1944Release Date
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Plot.
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.
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Cast & Crew.
Deanna Durbin
Caroline Frost
Robert Paige
Lawlor
Akim Tamiroff
Gregory
David Bruce
Dr. Robert Latham
Leonid Kinskey
Koppa
Frank Ryan
Director
June Vincent
Miss McLean
Lewis R. Foster
Writer
Ray Collins
Senator Frost
John D. Klorer
Writer
Andrew Tombes
Sad Sam
Thomas Gomez
Carstairs
Leo Townsend
Writer
Clara Blandick
Aunt Cissy
Samuel J. Warshawsky
Writer
Olin Howland
Bigelow (as Olin Howlin)
Curtis B. Warshawsky
Writer
George Cleveland
Marshal
Eddie Acuff
Cavalry Officer (uncredited)
Roscoe Ates
Lemuel (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
Bath House Barber (uncredited)
Iron Eyes Cody
Indian Scaring Caroline (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
Townsman (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin
Waiter (uncredited)
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Can't Help Singing is a 1944 American musical Western film directed by Frank Ryan and starring Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, and Akim Tamiroff. Based on a story by John D. Klorer and Leo Townsend, the film is about a senator's daughter who follows her boyfriend West in the days of the California gold rush. Durbin's only Technicolor film, Can't Help Singing was produced by Felix Jackson and scored by Jerome Kern with lyrics by E. Y. Harburg.The movie was one of the most expensive in Universal's history.