Mountain Music (film)

1937 film by Robert Florey

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Mountain Music

Directed by	Robert Florey
Written by	Charles Lederer Jack Moffitt Duke Atteberry
Produced by	Benjamin Glazer
Cinematography	Karl Struss
Edited by	Eda Warren
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 18, 1937 (1937年06月18日)
Running time	76 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Mountain Music is a 1937 American comedy-musical film directed by Robert Florey. Paramount reunited Raye and Burns from their pairing in Waikiki Wedding from earlier in the year. The plot, rooted in Burns' comic hillbilly radio persona, involves a longstanding feud between two country families of Monotony, Arkansas and an amnesia-prone groom.

Plot

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Cast

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Bob Burns as Bob Burnside
Martha Raye as Mary Beamish
John Howard as Ardinger Burnside
Terry Walker as Lobelia Sheppard
Rufe Davis as Ham Sheppard
George "Gabby" Hayes as Granpappy Burnside
Spencer Charters as Justice of the Peace Sharody
Charles Timblin as Shep Sheppard
Jan Duggan as Ma Burnside
Olin Howland as Pappy Burnside
Fuzzy Knight as Amos Burnside
Wally Vernon as Odette Potta
Cliff Clark as Medicine Show Proprietor
Goodee Montgomery as Alice, Potts Showgirl
Rita La Roy as Mrs. Hamilton B. Lovelace
Ellen Drew as Helen
uncredited bit players include Ward Bond, Virginia Dabney, Estelle Etterre, Florence Gill, Arthur Hohl, Priscilla Moran, Paul Newlan, and Glenn Strange.

Reception

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Critic Mae Tinée of the Chicago Tribune wrote: "Bob Burns is kinda sweet and Martha Raye is kinda likable and their picture is kinda lousy. I wish somebody would write a real story for this nice Burns person! He's made of too good stuff to be sent rattling around the country in inferior vehicles. His present rattletrap is a burlesque on feudin' and feudists in the mountings [sic ]. To keep from wedding his brother's gal, who is the darter of a foe and whom [sic ] said long whiskered belligerent insists shall become the bride of Bob or ELSE, our hero runs away from there."^[1]