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
Network & Production Companies

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
Johnny Lawlor

Akim Tamiroff
Prince Gregory Stroganovsky

David Bruce
Latham

Leonid Kinskey
Koppa

June Vincent
Miss McLean

Ray Collins
Senator Frost

Andrew Tombes
Sad Sam

Thomas Gomez
Carstairs

Clara Blandick
Aunt Cissy

Olin Howland
Bigelow (as Olin Howlin)

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)

Herbert Heywood
Mr. Brown (uncredited)

I. Stanford Jolley
Jeff (uncredited)

Harry Semels
Peon (uncredited)

Freddie Steele
Crewman (uncredited)

W. Howard Greene
Director of Photography

Felix Jackson
Producer

Ted J. Kent
Editor

Jerome Kern
Music / Songs

Frank Ryan
Screenplay / Director

Samuel J. Warshawsky
Novel

Curtis B. Warshawsky
Novel

John D. Klorer
Story

Lewis R. Foster
Screenplay

Leo Townsend
Story
Media.

Details.
Release DateDecember 25, 1944
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 30m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
california
saloon
musical
gold rush
covered wagon
Wiki.
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 suitor 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.
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