You're a Sweetheart is a 1937 American musical film directed by David Butler and starring Alice Faye, George Murphy and Ken Murray. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures who had Alice Faye on loan from 20th Century Fox to headline the film. It was remade in 1943 under the title Cowboy in Manhattan.
You're a Sweetheart was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Jack Otterson.
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Plot
A big and important Broadway theatre producer is opening his new big show. He is alarmed when he discovers his new show opens on the same night as a charity convention. He decides to lie about the tickets already being sold, so the show will be more alluring.
Cast
Alice Faye as Betty Bradley
George Murphy as Hal Adams
Ken Murray as Don King
Charles Winninger as Cherokee Charlie
Andy Devine as Daisy Day
William Gargan as Fred Edwards
Frank Jenks as Harry Howe
Frances Hunt as Penny
Tony Labriola as Oswald
Casper Reardon as Cousin Caspar
Donald Meek as Conway Jeeters
David Oliver as Yes Man
A.A. Trimble as Will Rogers
Edna Sedgewick as Ballet Dancer
Bob Murphy as Bailiff
Renie Riano as Mrs. Hepplethwaite
Wade Boteler as Cop
Virginia Sale as Gawking Wife at Opening
Constance Moore as Bit Role
Production
Universal paid 20th Century Fox $40,000 to use Alice Faye plus $26,500 when filming was extended.
Songs
You're a Sweetheart (Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson)
Broadway Jamboree (Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson)
My Fine Feathered Friend (Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson)
Who Killed Maggie? (Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson)
Oh, Oh, Oklahoma (Jimmy McHugh, Harold Adamson)
So It's Love (Mickey Bloom, Lou Bring, Arthur Quenzer)
Scrapin' the Toast' (Murray Mencher (music), Charles Tobias (lyrics))