Sing Sinner Sing is a 1933 American pre-Code romantic drama film directed by Howard Christie.
Plot
Leila Hyams plays a singer who is accused of her husband's murder.
Cast Paul Lukas as Phil Carida Leila Hyams as Lela Larson Don Dillaway as Ted Rendon Ruth Donnelly as Maggie Flannigan George E. Stone as Spats Joyce Compton as Gwen Jill Dennett as Sadie Arthur Hoyt as Uncle Homer Walter McGrail as Louis Gladys Blake as Cecily Gordon Arthur Housman as Jerry Edgar Norton as Roberts the Butler John St. Polis as James Parks Stella Adams as Aunt Emily van Puyten Pat O'Malley as Henchman Conley Walter Brennan as Henchman Riordan
Various artists, such as Lionel Hampton and Marshal Royal, can be seen playing in bands in the film.
Production notes At the time the movie was released, it was recognized as being loosely based on the 1932 Libby Holman-Zachary Smith Reynolds case."Sing, Sinner, Sing: Moans, Groans, And Murder on a Gambling Ship," Newsweek (1933).
According to Jeanne Scheper, other films inspired by "this episode of Holman's life include [...] Reckless (dir. Victor Fleming, 1935), with Jean Harlow; and Written on the Wind (dir. Douglas Sirk, 1956), with Lauren Bacall and Rock Hudson."Jeanne Scheper, Moving Performances: Divas, Iconicity, and Remembering the Modern Stage (New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016), 119 and 173;
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