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1944 film

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Beautiful but Broke
Directed by	Charles Barton
Screenplay by	Monte Brice
Story by	Arthur Housman Manuel Seff (adaptation)
Produced by	Irving Briskin
Starring	Joan Davis Jane Frazee John Hubbard
Cinematography	L. William O'Connell
Edited by	Richard Fantl
Music by	John Leipold
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	January 28, 1944 (1944-01-28)
Running time	74 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Beautiful but Broke (1944) is an American musical-comedy film starring Joan Davis and Jane Frazee.

Plot

Business is so bad at the Waldo Main theatrical agency that the owner gives it to his secretary, Dottie Duncan, and joins the Marines. Dottie enlists two office neighbors, Sally and Sue, to help her put over a big contract. Dottie recruits a local all-girl band to play an out-of-town date, but the railroad surrenders their seats to military personnel. Dottie can't find her purse containing the tickets, so the group is stranded in a small town.

The band makes good anyway, working at a daycare center while mothers are doing war work, and playing concerts at wartime charity events. Dottie learns that Bill Drake, who has been arranging these local activities, had Dottie's purse all the time and was keeping the railroad tickets so the band wouldn't move on.

Cast

Joan Davis as Dottie Duncan
Jane Frazee as Sally Richards
Judy Clark as Sue Ford
John Hubbard as Bill Drake
Bob Haymes as Jack Foster
The Brian Sisters as singing trio
John Eldredge as Waldo Main
Byron Foulger as Maxwell McKay
Grace Hayle as Birdie Benson
George McKay as railroad stationmaster
Danny Mummert as Rollo
Willie, West and McGinty as carpenters
Ferris Taylor as mayor

External links

Beautiful But Broke at IMDb
Beautiful But Broke at AllMovie

v t e Films directed by Charles Barton
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Films directed by Charles Barton

Wagon Wheels (1934)
Car 99 (1935)
The Last Outpost (1935)
Nevada (1935)
Timothy's Quest (1936)
And Sudden Death (1936)
Murder with Pictures (1936)
Rose Bowl (1936)
The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)
Forlorn River (1937)
Thunder Trail (1937)
Born to the West (1937)
Behind Prison Gates (1939)
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1939)
My Son Is Guilty (1939)
Five Little Peppers at Home (1940)
Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Babies for Sale (1940)
Out West with the Peppers (1940)
Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940)
The Phantom Submarine (1940)
Nobody's Children (1940)
Honolulu Lu (1941)
The Richest Man in Town (1941)
Sing for Your Supper (1941)
Two Latins from Manhattan (1941)
Shut My Big Mouth (1942)
Sweetheart of the Fleet (1942)
Parachute Nurse (1942)
Lucky Legs (1942)
The Spirit of Stanford (1942)
Laugh Your Blues Away (1942)
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1942)
Reveille with Beverly (1943)
What's Buzzin', Cousin? (1943)
Is Everybody Happy? (1943)
She Has What It Takes (1943)
Beautiful but Broke (1944)
Hey, Rookie (1944)
Jam Session (1944)
Louisiana Hayride (1944)
The Beautiful Cheat (1945)
Men in Her Diary (1945)
The Time of Their Lives (1946)
Smooth as Silk (1946)
White Tie and Tails (1946)
Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
The Noose Hangs High (1948)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Mexican Hayride (1948)
Africa Screams (1949)
Free for All (1949)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
The Milkman (1950)
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)
Dance with Me, Henry (1956)
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
Toby Tyler (1960)
Swingin' Along (1962)

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