Reveille with Beverly (1943)

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Beverly Ross ({Ann Miller}) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the switchboard at a local station. Worse yet, the blustery station owner Mr. Kennedy (Tim Ryan) wants no part of programming "jive" (i.e., swing music) that she loves, preferring the… More Beverly Ross ({Ann Miller}) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the switchboard at a local station. Worse yet, the blustery station owner Mr. Kennedy (Tim Ryan) wants no part of programming "jive" (i.e., swing music) that she loves, preferring the classics. But she manages to con Vernon Lewis (Franlin Pangborn), the host of the station's early morning classical show, into believing that he needs a vacation and slips into his time-slot at 5 am, where she starts running records by Bob Crosby's band, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Frank Sinatra in place of Beethoven and Mendelssohn. The soldiers at the local army base pick up on the new show, and two of them, wealthy candy company magnate Barry Lang (William Wright) and his former chauffeur Andy Adams (Dick Purcell, decide they want to meet this new disc jockey, and as luck would have it her brother (Larry Parks) is in their platoon and invites them to his home. But the two men decide to switch identities, Barry denying his wealth and pretending to be Andy, and Andy presenting himself as the candy heir Barry -- and as if matters aren't complicated enough for Beverly, coping with their antics, she has to fight to keep her radio show. But when the soldiers listening to her start writing in by the thousands, and Barry suggests she call her 5am show "Reveille," she takes it one step further and "Reveille With Beverly," and becomes a smash. But can she sort out the intertwining romantic overtures of the two men in her life? ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 18 min.
Directed By: Charles Barton
Genres: Musical & Performing Arts

In Theaters: Feb 4, 1943 Wide
Studio: Columbia Pictures

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Michael W. Phillips, Jr., Goatdog's Movies
Might have been a truly great collection of numbers without the filler ... but it's definitely worth seeing.

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Cast

            Ann Miller as Beverly Ross

            William Wright as Barry Lang

            Dick Purcell as Andy Adams

            Franklin Pangborn as Vernon Lewis

            Tim Ryan as Mr Kennedy

            Larry Parks as Eddie Ross

            Barbara Brown as Mrs. Ross

            Douglas Leavitt as Mr Ross

            Adele Mara as Evelyn Ross

            Walter Sande as Canvassback

            Wally Vernon as Stomp McCoy

            Andrew Tombes as Mr. Smith

            Ella Mae Morse as Singer with Freddie Slack's band

            Frank Sinatra as Specialty

            The Mills Brothers
            
            The Three Radio Rogues
            
            Bobby Barber as Collins

            Eddy Chandler as Top Sergeant

            Bob Crosby as Specialty

            Boyd Davis as Gen. Humphrey

            Maude Eburne as Maggie

            Freddie Slack & His Orchestra as Specialty

            Ernest Hilliard as Mr. Oliver

            Jean Innes as Mrs. Oliver

            Si Jenks as Jenks

            Eddie Kane as Medical Officer

            Shirley Mills as Laura Jean

            John T. Murray as Director

            David Newell as Sentry

            Herbert Rawlinson as Announcer

            Jack Rice as Davis

            Irene Ryan as Elsie

            Virginia Sale as Mrs. Browning

            Doodles Weaver as Elmer

            Lee Wilde
            
            Lynn Wilde as Singing Twin

            Count Basie as Specialty

            Duke Ellington as Specialty

            Harry Anderson as Sgt. Anderson

            Eugene Jackson as Jackson
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