Music Is Magic is a 1935

1935 in film

-Events:*Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer .*Seven year old Shirley Temple wins a special Academy Award.*The Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment started in order to educate the Bantu peoples.-Top grossing films:-Academy Awards:...

 Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...

 musical film

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 directed by George Marshall

George Marshall (director)

George E. Marshall was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of movie history....

. The movie stars Alice Faye

Alice Faye

Alice Faye was an American actress and singer, called by The New York Times "one of the few movie stars to walk away from stardom at the peak of her career." She is remembered first for her stardom at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her husband, bandleader and comedian...

 and Bebe Daniels

Bebe Daniels

Bebe Daniels was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. She began her career in Hollywood during the silent movie era as a child actress, became a star in musicals like 42nd Street, and later gained further fame on radio and television in Britain...

 and is based on a play by Jesse Lasky Jr. and Gladys Unger. The movie was Daniels' last American screen appearance.

Plot

Diane De Valle is an aging theatre actress who can't deal with getting older. Trying to hide it, she has to come to terms she is being replaced by a younger actress. She has to defeat the much younger and suable Peggy Harper for a role of a young woman in an upcoming stage production.

Cast

• Alice Faye
  Alice Faye
  Alice Faye was an American actress and singer, called by The New York Times "one of the few movie stars to walk away from stardom at the peak of her career." She is remembered first for her stardom at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her husband, bandleader and comedian...
  
   – Peggy Harper
• Bebe Daniels
  Bebe Daniels
  Bebe Daniels was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. She began her career in Hollywood during the silent movie era as a child actress, became a star in musicals like 42nd Street, and later gained further fame on radio and television in Britain...
  
   – Diane De Valle
• Ray Walker – Jack Lambert
• Frank Mitchell
  Frank Mitchell
  Frank Mitchell was a cricketer and rugby union player.-School, University and Yorkshire:...
  
   – Peanuts Harper
• Jack Durant – Eddie Harper
• Rosina Lawrence
  Rosina Lawrence
  Rosina Lawrence was a Canadian-born American actress, singer, and dancer. She was a native of Ottawa, Ontario.-Career:...
  
   – Shirley De Valle
• Thomas Beck
  Thomas Beck (actor)
  Thomas Beck was an American actor during the mid to late 1930s.Born in New York City, Beck entered college with the intention of becoming a doctor but abandoned that for engineering. His first professional work was in a stock company and he later played on Broadway. His work interested film...
  
   – Tony Bennet
• Hattie McDaniel
  Hattie McDaniel
  Hattie McDaniel was the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award. She won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind ....
  
  – Amanda

Soundtrack

• Honey Chile
  • by Oscar Levant and Sydney Clare
  • Sung by Alice Faye
• Love is Smiling at Me
  • by Oscar Levant and Sydney Clare
  • Sung by Alice Faye
• Music Is Magic
  • by Arthur Johnston and Sydney Clare
  • Sung by Alice Faye
• La Locumba
  • by Raoul Julien and Sydney Clare
  • Sung by Alice Faye