Reveille with Beverly (1943)
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41% of users liked it
(204 ratings)
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,… 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
- Directed By
- Charles Barton
- Genres
- Musical & Performing Arts
Unrated,
- 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
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Ann Miller
as Beverly Ross
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William Wright
as Barry Lang
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Dick Purcell
as Andy Adams
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Franklin Pangborn
as Vernon Lewis
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Tim Ryan
as Mr Kennedy
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Larry Parks
as Eddie Ross
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Barbara Brown
as Mrs. Ross
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Douglas Leavitt
as Mr Ross
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Adele Mara
as Evelyn Ross
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Walter Sande
as Canvassback
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Wally Vernon
as Stomp McCoy
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Andrew Tombes
as Mr. Smith
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Ella Mae Morse
as Singer with Freddie Slack's band
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Frank Sinatra
as Specialty
- The Mills Brothers
- The Three Radio Rogues
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Bobby Barber
as Collins
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Eddy Chandler
as Top Sergeant
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Bob Crosby
as Specialty
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Boyd Davis
as Gen. Humphrey
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Maude Eburne
as Maggie
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Freddie Slack & His Orchestra
as Specialty
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Ernest Hilliard
as Mr. Oliver
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Jean Innes
as Mrs. Oliver
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Si Jenks
as Jenks
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Eddie Kane
as Medical Officer
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Shirley Mills
as Laura Jean
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John T. Murray
as Director
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David Newell
as Sentry
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Herbert Rawlinson
as Announcer
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Jack Rice
as Davis
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Irene Ryan
as Elsie
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Virginia Sale
as Mrs. Browning
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Doodles Weaver
as Elmer
- Lee Wilde
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Lynn Wilde
as Singing Twin
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Count Basie
as Specialty
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Duke Ellington
as Specialty
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Harry Anderson
as Sgt. Anderson
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Eugene Jackson
as Jackson
