CUBAN LOVE SONG

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CREDITS

1931, 86 minutes, B&W.
Producer, Albert Lewin; Director, W.S. Van Dyke; Screenplay, John Lynch; Cinematography, Harold Rosson; Music Direction, Charles Maxwell; Music Direction, Herbert Stothart.

CAST

Terry Burke, Lawrence Tibbett; Nanita, Lupe Velez; Rocket, Ernest Torrence; O.O. Jones, Jimmy Durante; Crystal, Karen Morley; Elvira, Louise Fazenda; John, Hale Hamilton; Aunt Rose, Mathilde Comont; Terry Jr., Philip Cooper.

SONGS

The Cuban Love Song;The Peanut Vendor by Marion Sunshine, L. Wolfe Gilbert and Moises Simons; The Marine Hymn; Tramps At Sea; You're In The Army Now by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh; Nobody's Sweetheart by Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Billy Meyers and Elmer Schoebel.

PLOT SYNOPSIS

"A marine on leave in Cuba falls in love; years later, he returns to retrieve his illegitimate child, whose mother has died."
- John Walker (ed.), Halliwell's Film Guide

NOTES

"Beautifully photographed by Robert Rosson and with direction by W.S. Van Dyke that skillfully helped camouflage the fissures in the screenplay. . .The Cuban Love Song was one of the year's better musicals. . ."
- Clive Hirschhorn, The Hollywood Musical

"Tibbett may be a sensation on the concert stage, but its not the same in pictures."
- Variety

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