Let's Sing Again
Bobby Breen, Henry Armetta, George Houston, Vivienne Osborne, Ann Doran
| released: 1936 May 08 | duration: 1:08:07 |
In Let's Sing Again Bobby is the son of singer George Houston and Ann Doran who separated in Naples and Doran returned to America. But she died and Bobby was placed in an orphanage. He runs away when a traveling carnival comes to town and is taken in by Henry Armetta who used to be an opera singer himself. Bobby has certainly inherited his father's voice as everyone discovers. The villain of the piece is trapeze star Grant Withers who arranges an 'adoption' so he can sponge off the young man's tonsils. As would be the case in most of Breen's films, Bobby gets a nice array of songs, some opera, some popular, some Italian folk songs. Until he reached puberty Breen had a great career, after that he had a Peter Brady moment and it was never the same. Let's Sing Again is still a nice family film and as good an introduction now as back in the mid Thirties to Bobby Breen and his brief career of film stardom.
At 12:33, a
3 ball juggler/A>
has 5 small baskets attached to his suit so that balls could be tossed in,
popped out, or rolled from one basket to another, as seen for 12 seconds.
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