Music Is Magic is a 1935 American musical film directed by George Marshall and starring Alice Faye and Bebe Daniels. It is based on a play by Jesse Lasky Jr. and Gladys Unger. The film 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 Peggy Harper for a role of a young woman in an upcoming stage production.
Cast Alice Faye – Peggy Harper Bebe Daniels – Diane De Valle Ray Walker – Jack Lambert Frank Mitchell – Peanuts Harper Jack Durant – Eddie Harper Rosina Lawrence – Shirley De Valle Thomas Beck – Tony Bennett Hattie McDaniel – Amanda Arline Judge – Theatre Customer (uncredited)
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
Reception In their December, 1935 edition, Modern Screen gave the film a one-star review saying "the results are not so good." Although not mentioning the star, Alice Faye, the reviewer commented on some of the other cast members, saying Ray Walker "does a good job", Frank Mitchell and Jack Durant "do some of their noisy cutting up", Luis Alberni provides "the real laughs" and Bebe Daniels’ "deft impersonation (of a movie star who has seen better days) should cause many a lady about town to wince."
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